by Greg Piper
The Trump administration and politically progressive jurisdictions are playing tug-of-war with school districts on gender identity policies such as access to the opposite sex’s intimate facilities and disclosure of gender transition to parents.
The American public is also getting its greatest insight into the lives of formerly gender-confused young people, while pop culture finally acknowledges a sexual-arousal condition of unknown frequency among males who identify as girls and women.
Illinois’s Deerfield Public Schools District 109 is under the microscope on both sides of the Atlantic after parent Nicole Georgas (pictured above) said Thursday at a school board meeting that administrators and teachers entered the junior high girls’ locker room to force girls to change into their gym clothes after they refused to do so in the presence of a male who identifies as a girl.
Georgas said she already filed a civil rights complaint with the Department of Justice that was referred to the Department of Education, and a complaint with the school itself, in the video clipped by gender-critical media outlet Reduxx from the 72-minute school board meeting.
After her daughter first encountered the male in the girls’ restroom Feb. 5, Georgas said she contacted the administration, which allegedly told her its legal counsel said students must be allowed to use facilities for the opposite sex.
The Illinois Department of Human Rights says the “discomfort or privacy concerns of other students, teachers, or parents are not valid reasons to deny or limit the full and equal use of facilities based on a student’s gender-related identity.”
Georgas said she rejected the district’s offer that her daughter switch gym classes to avoid the male, rather than require the male to use a gender-neutral room. “The girls just want their privacy and they want their locker room back.”
After Georgas sat down, an audience member asked “why are you looking at children’s genitals?” – a Democratic talking point against sex-based legislation.
Wearing a shirt with a knife over the words “Protect Trans Kids,” one speaker responded to Georgas’ comment by denouncing “petty women” for promoting the “white supremacist agenda of their cis white husbands,” portraying the gender-critical movement – which is arguably strongest in the secular U.K. and includes a nonwhite pioneer – as a race-based religion.
Georgas did not respond to Just the News queries via Facebook messenger or a public post on her X account, which has been sharing news stories and support for her crusade. District officials didn’t answer when asked for their response to Georgas and whether gender identity in intimate facilities is governed by policy, practice or administrative discretion.
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Just the News reporter Greg Piper has covered law and policy for two decades, with a focus on tech companies, civil liberties and higher education.
