Mick Hartley

Toilets in Chicago public schools – all Chicago public schools – are now gender-friendly, inclusive, and open to whoever feels comfortable using them:

ICYMI: We’re requiring all schools to adopt new signage to make our restrooms more inclusive. This is a big step forward for gender equity for our students and staff. pic.twitter.com/4JPBdd1jQy

— CPS – Chicago Public Schools (@ChiPubSchools) November 30, 2021

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A big step forward for gender equity, but a big step backward for Chicago girls:

This week, Chicago Public schools announced on its Twitter account that all restrooms have been made mixed-sex to be “more inclusive” of students and staff who wish to use “facilities that align with their gender identity.”

The new policy required all public schools in Chicago to post updated signage on restroom doors by December 1.

Executive Director of Media Relations Mary Ann Fergus told the National Desk: “Our restrooms are open for use to anyone who feels comfortable in that space.”

New temporary signage issued to schools shows that some newly mixed-sex student restrooms have urinals as well as stalls, while others have only stalls.

Camie Pratt, the Title IX Officer said in a Twitter video announcing the policy: “Our district’s Office of Student Protections and Title IX is also working on a long-term plan to create more permanent signage for our bathrooms.” 

Not everyone welcomes this wonderful initiative, however.

Many Chicago parents are outraged, and slamming the mixed-sex restroom policy as “child abuse.” Some are suggesting parents file a class action lawsuit against the school board or home-school their children.

A tweeter said it is “a breach of common decency to expect young girls to share the experience of going through this [their periods] with immature boys in the [vicinity].” Other Twitter users discussed how young girls in their families are refusing to drink water during the school day in order to avoid using the mixed-sex restrooms.

It's a classic case of women -  or in this case girls – being thrown under the bus for the sake of a tiny minority of trans children, and in the name of a fatuous gender ideology. But look how pleased with themselves the administrators are!

Anyway, what could possibly go wrong?

In October, a 15-year-old male student in Loudon County, Virginia who identifies as gender fluid was found guilty of the violent anal and oral rape of a teen girl in a school’s girls’ restroom. The incident took place on May 28 while the male student was wearing a skirt, and he later molested another girl at a school he was transferred to. A similar incident was reported in 2017 in Decatur, Georgia by a mother who said a “gender non-conforming” male student penetrated her five-year-old daughter with his fingers in a girls’ restroom at school.