"However, I still fail to see how this particular case is so "obviously" related."
Prior to schools enacting policies that allowed for students to access bathrooms/locker rooms of the opposite sex, there was an easy way to get boys out of bathrooms (and the like): "Get out! This is the girls' room." If school staff encounters four feet in…
"However, I still fail to see how this particular case is so "obviously" related."
Prior to schools enacting policies that allowed for students to access bathrooms/locker rooms of the opposite sex, there was an easy way to get boys out of bathrooms (and the like): "Get out! This is the girls' room." If school staff encounters four feet in one stall, and one pair is attached to a male -- as it is now the staff member has no idea if the kid is there because they're allowed now because of their "gender identity," or if they're just hooking up a girl. I would assume that staff don't want to get accused of harassing a student who is allowed there because of updated policies re: gender -- so they don't challenge anyone.
If girls have an awkward guy in the girls' room now that makes them uncomfortable because he's leering at them, they would be right to worry that the school wouldn't back them up. Just look at what happened to the girls from the volleyball team at a school in Vermont. The trans-identified male was reportedly sitting there leering at them while they changed. The girls reported it and the school punished THEM, and was going to make them sit through a training session to work on their biases... and only backed down after the ADF said it would file a suit against the school. Girls see what's happening across the country. There is no way to escape males if you're a teenaged girl. The bathroom was a place to escape. If a boy came in for any reason, girls knew they could tell a teacher/staff member and he'd be removed. Those days are gone.
Maybe I'm not explaining this well because I don't see how this ISN'T connected to the changes in policies that allow males into female-only spaces. Yes, people always respond "if a male wants to hurt a girl/woman he will." Yes, we know that. But before if other girls were around there was the chance they'd unite to Get the Boy Out. Now with kids like the teen rapist, we have awkward males saying they're girls, or non-binary (in which case why would they have an issue using the boy's room?) -- will the other girls speak up to get a boy out of the bathroom/locker room?
Look at UPenn. The women on the swimming team there were instructed by the UNIVERSITY that if they had a problem changing with Lia Thomas, an intact male, that they should access the LGBTQ+ group at the university to learn about inclusion, and oh, psychological counseling is available, too. I think we had a few girls speak up from UPenn but I believe they did so anonymously, because the school had already told them they'd risk their chances at grad school, jobs, etc. They were told that they need to stay quiet. We only got girls willing to speak up from other schools that DID support their female athletes - Riley Gaines at the University of Kentucky. If the rule changes to Title IX that the Biden admin is trying to push through (bypassing the legislature at the Dept of Ed), will the University of Kentucky STILL back up their female athletes when it will result in them being accused of violating Title IX by discriminating on the basis of gender identity?
If college girls aren't able to speak up at their own school about how these policies affect them, why would high school girls?
"However, I still fail to see how this particular case is so "obviously" related."
Prior to schools enacting policies that allowed for students to access bathrooms/locker rooms of the opposite sex, there was an easy way to get boys out of bathrooms (and the like): "Get out! This is the girls' room." If school staff encounters four feet in one stall, and one pair is attached to a male -- as it is now the staff member has no idea if the kid is there because they're allowed now because of their "gender identity," or if they're just hooking up a girl. I would assume that staff don't want to get accused of harassing a student who is allowed there because of updated policies re: gender -- so they don't challenge anyone.
If girls have an awkward guy in the girls' room now that makes them uncomfortable because he's leering at them, they would be right to worry that the school wouldn't back them up. Just look at what happened to the girls from the volleyball team at a school in Vermont. The trans-identified male was reportedly sitting there leering at them while they changed. The girls reported it and the school punished THEM, and was going to make them sit through a training session to work on their biases... and only backed down after the ADF said it would file a suit against the school. Girls see what's happening across the country. There is no way to escape males if you're a teenaged girl. The bathroom was a place to escape. If a boy came in for any reason, girls knew they could tell a teacher/staff member and he'd be removed. Those days are gone.
Maybe I'm not explaining this well because I don't see how this ISN'T connected to the changes in policies that allow males into female-only spaces. Yes, people always respond "if a male wants to hurt a girl/woman he will." Yes, we know that. But before if other girls were around there was the chance they'd unite to Get the Boy Out. Now with kids like the teen rapist, we have awkward males saying they're girls, or non-binary (in which case why would they have an issue using the boy's room?) -- will the other girls speak up to get a boy out of the bathroom/locker room?
Look at UPenn. The women on the swimming team there were instructed by the UNIVERSITY that if they had a problem changing with Lia Thomas, an intact male, that they should access the LGBTQ+ group at the university to learn about inclusion, and oh, psychological counseling is available, too. I think we had a few girls speak up from UPenn but I believe they did so anonymously, because the school had already told them they'd risk their chances at grad school, jobs, etc. They were told that they need to stay quiet. We only got girls willing to speak up from other schools that DID support their female athletes - Riley Gaines at the University of Kentucky. If the rule changes to Title IX that the Biden admin is trying to push through (bypassing the legislature at the Dept of Ed), will the University of Kentucky STILL back up their female athletes when it will result in them being accused of violating Title IX by discriminating on the basis of gender identity?
If college girls aren't able to speak up at their own school about how these policies affect them, why would high school girls?