MILFORD, N.H. — Dozens of students walked out of their New Hampshire school after the district banned urinals in a compromise to a proposal that would have blocked children from using facilities based on their gender identity.
The school board decided a few days before the Friday walkout to prohibit students at Milford Middle School and Milford High School from using urinals or shared spaces in locker rooms.
The ban in a town of about 15,000 people roughly 35 miles (56 kilometers) from Concord, New Hampshire’s capital, was the culmination of a long debate about district rules about bathroom use and gender identity. District procedures say students can access the bathroom that “corresponds to their gender identity consistently asserted at school.”
That procedure still applies. But a proposal that came before the school board called for no longer allowing students to use school bathrooms and locker rooms based on their gender identity. Board member Noah Boudreault said he proposed the restrictions on urinals as a compromise.
“I want to be clear, it was a compromise to both sides of this issue,” Boudreault said. “It was out into effect last week.”
Under the new policy, the maximum occupancy for each bathroom and locker room will be capped at the number of stalls it contains. It also prevents students from using shared changing areas.
The students demonstrated for about 45 minutes after the walkout. Some held signs, at least one of which said: “We want urinals.”
Republicans across the country have been pushing anti-transgender legislation. While New Hampshire bans discrimination based on gender identity in housing, employment and public accommodations, state lawmakers are considering legislation that says public entities are capable of “differentiating between the male and female sexes in athletic competitions, criminal incarceration, or places of intimate privacy.”
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Whittle reported from Portland, Maine.
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OK America! Had enough of the woke folks yet?
With how many places are doing this, obviously not.
The whole debate has descended into total silliness! Perhaps stupidity would be a better term to use. It’s interesting that these school boards make decisions about the students without ever having conversation with those students and now the students are protesting surprising the know-it-alls! Why? They learned from the tactics used by the woke mob, shout loud and often enough and eventually they get their way.
Really, people, it isn’t that difficult. If you have boy plumbing, you use the boy’s facilities; if you have girl plumbing, you use the girl’s facilities. If you have boy plumbing but “feel” like a girl, you need a good shrink. Using the girl’s bathroom isn’t going to help. Even the uber-left mental health profession agrees that gender dysphoria is a serious mental condition, and “humoring” it does more harm than good.
A urinal is a sanitary plumbing fixture for urination only. Urinals are often provided in public toilets for male users. This is in no way discriminating against females. It is just a sanitary plumbing fixture for urination.
It is obvious that one must have a mental derangement in order to become a Democrat.
To fully advance the Lying, Treasonous, Demonic, Woke, Socialist Democrat Party’s destructive beliefs and agendas is to divide our citizens with hate and promote – racism, open borders, radical feminism, abortion-on-demand, the LGBTQ lifestyle, unfettered sexual identity, transgender, same sex marriage, child indoctrination into sexual confusion and perversions, the pagan Liberal left Democrats must do away with GOD, our Constitution, common sense, morality, Christian values and free religious exercise altogether.
Under the of Disguise of Democrats versions of “anti-discrimination.”
OR becoming a dem, RUINS their brain..