A Long Beach school paused plans to build a gender-neutral locker room when parents opposed it, following an article in a right-wing news outlet.
A teacher’s acceptance can mean everything for a transgender student. If some teachers can’t accept their students for who they are, then they don’t belong in the classroom.widespread anti-transgender rhetoric
This was the case for Amber Va, who came out as trans while attending Long Beach Polytechnic High School in 2018. When she used the girls’ restroom, her classmates would whisper and shoot her dirty look. She would stand up for herself and try to talk it out with them. Some were receptive, but the mental and emotional gymnastics of having to debate her humanity exhausted her, so Va started using the office bathroom.
Wilson High’s locker room design reflects this feedback. Each stall includes a shower, changing area, bench and storage nook. The partitions between each stall would extend nearly to the ceiling and floor, and waist-high lockers would allow for coaches to easily supervise the space. Scott Rice, who does not have children in the district but graduated from Wilson in 1985, said the locker rooms were “ludicrous and dangerous for kids.” Rice said he contacted USA Swimming, teachers, coaches, and his local councilperson to complain. By the end of his speech, he was shouting into the microphone.
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