Edmonds School board director Keith Smith said he heard that a community member 'decided they were going to set up and be our little bathroom monitors.'
Left headshot: Edmonds School board director Keith Smith. Background is a screenshot from Oct. 24 Edmonds School District meeting.
While Smith used the alleged incident to speak out, he didn’t witness it. In fact, he didn’t provide any evidence that it even occurred and Edmonds Police have no records of any complaints.From the onset of his comments at the October 24 school board meeting, he promised he would go on a “diatribe.” His five-and-a-half-minute rant lived up to his promise.
He then cast doubt on the motives of adults concerned with all-gender bathrooms or allowing biological boys to use girls’ facilities. He said it’s not really about safety, claiming that is just a “dog whistle.” Smith went on to explain that his comments weren’t meant only for people at the meeting, “but to anyone who casually demeans or harms any LGBTQ+ youth in America.”
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