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A school district in Pennsylvania will pay close to $10,000 to install windows in gender-inclusive bathrooms in one middle school, which will let people look inside the bathrooms from the hallways, the district board announced this week. Pennsylvania’s South Western School District board president, Matt Gelazela, said in a statement that the windows will be added to some Markle Middle School bathrooms “to monitor for a multitude of prohibited activities such as any possible vaping, drug use, bullying or absenteeism.”
But these windows will only be added to gender-neutral bathrooms, prompting parents and LGBTQ advocates to label it discriminatory. Others see it as a privacy infringement meant to discourage students from using gender-inclusive restrooms altogether and target LGBTQ students in particular.
Jennifer Holahan, a parent of a student in the school district, told WGAL-TV, “I can understand needing to have supervision over middle school and high school kids, especially in the bathroom. … But I also think windows aren’t the solution. I think if it was a real issue, it wouldn’t just be the gender-inclusive restrooms.”
The board clarified that it would “create openings” that maintain “privacy in the toilet area” and only “increase oversight of the wash area.” Gelazela said these windows, which will cost $8,700 to install, are the standard in the district’s elementary schools.
All of this is incredibly weird, and whatever spin Gelazela tries to spew, the installation of the windows only in some bathrooms is meant to target and bully LGBTQ youth.
