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Boy's suit forces him into locker room

I've followed this story about allowing a transgender boy into the locker rooms and showers of the high school.

As a mother of a 20-year-old boy and 18-year-old girl, I think high school boys are great. I don't think, however, that they would react so kindly to a transgender girl wanting to change with them in their locker rooms and shower with them. Nor should they.

That girl might face some disrespectful behavior, and sensibly, might defer opting to change and shower with them. Might even opt to change in her own locker room with other people of the same physical makeup.

However, because girls are not likely to cause anyone harm, or terrible embarrassment, a boy gets to use a lawsuit to force his way into their locker room, shower with them, even though he is, still, of an opposite gender, and they're just supposed to suck it up because the ACLU says they have to? It would cause him angst to use a separate restroom and shower, so he needs to shower with the gals? Clearly, it won't work to shower with the boys anymore, so it's the girls locker room or - a lawsuit.

How did this ever even become an issue? One boy's discomfort gets to trump that of the entire female population of an entire school? So, a boy needs to force himself on a girl's domain. Big surprise, there. but this time, gets to use the law to do so. The ACLU should be ashamed of itself.

Polly Dickson

St. Charles

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