A Wisconsin elementary teacher is irate after his now her school won't allow for the use of bathrooms with children. It's not just this one particular teacher it is all staff but apparently it is "transphobic".
As a parent, I would be uneasy with a biological man using my elementary school daughter's multi-stalled bathroom. Plain and simple.
I don't have anything against anyone for their personal choices as long as it doesn't directly affect my kids or myself. With how crazy our world has become and dangerous for our children I would have to agree with the school that staff should just use the adult bathrooms.
Formerly known as Mark Vincent Busenbark, now Vica Steel came out to his class last year with a video and a book. When you scroll down I have the video attached.
Below she writes an open letter about why she says it is transphobic.
According to Our Lives Madison where Steel writes an open letter:
The leadership of the Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD) is currently enacting a transphobic policy. And yes, it’s about bathrooms. It’s ALWAYS about bathrooms.
The facts:
The policy our leadership is enacting is to require that staff and students use different bathrooms. I know, that doesn’t seem transphobic on the face of it. Our leadership wants to push the idea that it’s just a clarification of existing expectations. They want us to believe that it’s not transphobic, it’s just about safety and about “listening to all stakeholders”. And if that were true, this would not be a problem.
How is this Transphobic you may ask? Heres Steel's explanation:
In the 23 years that I’ve been in the district, students and staff have always used the same multi-stall bathrooms in our schools. Does that shock you? Women using the same bathrooms as girls? Can I ask you to name any public space that segregates bathroom use by age? Do theme parks? Malls? Restaurants? Museums? Every place I’ve been in my life, Adults and youth use multi-stall bathrooms. Why would anyone think schools are in any way different than every other place we go in our lives.
According to Activist Mommy:
Busenbark claims that during his tenure with the district, there has never been a complaint regarding biological female staff using the same bathrooms as their students.
“Within days a transphobic parent complained to the district and our leadership, instead of following established guidelines for transgender people and our district’s bathrooms, the leadership decided to rush a change of policy so that I would not use that bathroom,” he said.
Busenbark added that the school does, in fact, have a bathroom policy allowing transgender individuals to use the bathroom which most closely aligns with their preferred “gender identity,” as well as several “all-gender” bathrooms.
“There is no district policy regarding adult staff using children’s bathrooms, so therefore there have been no policy changes,” said MMSD Public Information Officer Tim LeMonds in an interview with 4W. “However, as a best practice, the district does encourage adult staff to not use a children’s bathroom.”
https://youtu.be/hGoBt-8Ys6k
Hopefully, Steel will get a grip and just use the staff bathrooms. I do not see a reason other than something sinister to want to use the students.
