Illinois School District Moves To Allow Boys To Use Girls’ Locker Rooms And Showers

After the Trump administration’s Department of Education rolled back the Title IX “guidance letter” regarding bathroom usage in public schools by transgender students last year, I’d foolishly thought we might be done with this issue. (At least until the next Democratic president took office, anyway.) But apparently not. Out in Illinois, the Palatine-Schaumburg school district, located to the northwest of Chicago, has brought the transgender bathroom wars back into the spotlight. The school board voted this week by a 5-2 margin to allow transgender students to use the locker rooms, showers and other facilities of their chosen gender. The policy is expected to go into effect in January. Up until now, a compromise had allowed transgender “girls” to change in the nurse’s office or a private stall. - More...