South Western’s elected school board is making some strange decisions.

For the last two years, they’ve fixated on which bathrooms LGBTQ+ kids use. In 2023, officials in this Hanover-area district played musical chairs with school bathrooms in a misguided attempt to appease the loudest bigots among them — ending up with five different types of bathrooms.

After a low-turnout school board election in which several far-right members joined their ranks, they hired a Christian law firm, decided to begin banning books and reopened the bathroom issue. Board President Matthew Gelazela, who was elevated to his post after previously serving as the board’s most vocal bomb-thrower, pointed to Red Lion’s discriminatory policies as something to aspire to.

Now, upon the advice of that law firm — the Harrisburg-based Independence Law Center — the board approved spending $8,700 to cut windows so passersby can look into the so-called “gender-identity” student bathrooms.

  • @[email protected]
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    Now, upon the advice of that law firm — the Harrisburg-based Independence Law Center — the board approved spending $8,700 to cut windows so passersby can look into the so-called “gender-identity” student bathrooms.

    Anyone want to take a bet that someone at the law firm or on the school board, really loves to sexual assault children?

  • @waterSticksToMyBalls
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    This seems to be a pretty blatant violation of IBC chapter 21 1210.3

  • Flying Squid
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    Ah, this takes me back to my own high school days back in the 90s where none of the boys’ toilet stalls had doors on them. I assume as some sort of anti-masturbation tactic. I’ve got nervous bathroom issues already so I basically held it in until I got home most of the time.

  • @renrenPDX
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    I prefer to have open bathrooms. The only secure room is the stall itself (along the wall) and once you’re done, you step out to the bank of handwashing stations across from the stalls in the open. You’re never IN the bathroom with others as it’s out in the open.

  • @Etterra
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    I can’t believe this isn’t illegal. What the thru idk fuck.

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    From a local station.

    "Our students should not consider the space outside of our stalls as private within the multiuser restrooms. Our current policy states ‘In any facility in a District school that is for use based on Gender Identity, in which a person may be in a state of undress in the presence of others, school personnel shall provide private changing areas for use.’ Areas between our stalls and sinks in multiuser restrooms are not private changing areas under that policy.

    Just fucking WOW. I guess we should check their assholes next.

    https://www.wgal.com/article/parents-upset-over-window-installation-south-westerns-gender-inclusive-bathrooms/62492963

  • @Dkarma
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    Gorilla glue and posters. Repeat Ad nauseum.

    • @Madison420
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      Well no, they’re monitoring who is using the bathroom. It’s 100% just so they can make lists and check them twice to number who’s naughty who’s nice.

      Ed: to be cheese I don’t agree and this is dumb but I do love a dumb rhyme

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    You only need two types of bathrooms. One for standing while peeing and the other for sitting. That’s the only way bathrooms need to be divided.

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    Sorry isn’t “gender identity” the most common public restroom type in America, and also the opposite of the one they’re concerned about? They aren’t putting windows in the boys’ room or the girls’ room, which are segregated by gender. These are the gender neutral restrooms that they want to peek into (or really, discourage anyone from using). Up is down with these people.

    • @HappycamperNZ
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      Time to retrofit some staff bathrooms and save them 18k doing it themselves

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    You’ve always got to show up for those school board elections now. Every. Single. Time.

    • @UnderpantsWeevilOP
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      Or live in Houston and the governor can just strip your School Board of power, then install an unelected bureaucrat to loot the school treasury.

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    These are the people who continually call everyone on the left “groomers” and taking an unhealthy interest in kids? The same people cutting peepholes into school bathrooms?

    • @Wrench
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      Yep, the people whose entire personality is combating the “woke liberal left”.

      You know, the people they portray is foaming at the mouth woke crusaders. When in actuality, 95% of left voters consist of people who don’t give a shit about all this besides listening to the oppressed minorities problems and proposed solutions, and showing the smallest amount of empathy.

      “Oh damn, I didn’t realize you dealt with that shit. Yeah, ok, gender neutral bathrooms are cool. Whatever you need, doesn’t bother me.”

      Right: “screeeeeeeee!!!”

    • @WoodScientist
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      Anyone who shows up to a school board meeting to complain about bathrooms should automatically have the police sent to look at their hard drive. If you’re that concerned about the bathroom habits of young children, the cops really need to look at your internet history and the contents of your hard drive.

  • @kescusay
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    “Guys, guys… If we just hurt these kids enough, it will force them back into the closet and we’ll get to pretend LGBTQ+ kids don’t exist!” - These assholes, probably

    • @betterdeadthanreddit
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      That’s the plan. Ostracize to literal death and pretend it’s an unfortunate side-effect that following a god (more specifically, their god) will fix.

      • metaStatic
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        I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, it’s not the substance of the issue that matters at all, it’s the taboo. Accepting these kids diminishes their kink, they’re not being naughty if it’s socially acceptable and wheres the fun in that.

    • @[email protected]
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      War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, Republican bullshit is still Republican bullshit.

    • @betterdeadthanreddit
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      I don’t think these school board members have enough privacy in their homes.