(LifeSiteNews) — Here we go again.
Cox Mill High School in Concord, North Carolina, is facing allegations that it ignored concerns from female students about a transgender-identifying male who used girls’ locker room “and stared at females while they changed.”
When the girls and their parents complained, the then-principal informed them that the situation was “too political to address.” A complaint has now been filed by America First Legal (AFL).
“There is a biological male who dresses and acts like a female who is on the football and basketball cheer team,” female student Trista Ruck said in a public hearing last December to the Cabarrus County School Board. “That is not the issue. The issue is whenever he dresses and undresses in the women’s locker room and uses the women’s restroom.”
“(A) peer of mine, who is on a sports team, (said) that during scheduled spring workouts for her sport she was in the locker room changing when she noticed him watching her and the other girls dress and undress,” Ruck continued. “She stated that this made her feel extremely uncomfortable.” The principal, she said, told one disturbed student that the girls could “go somewhere else” to change if they felt uncomfortable.
It wasn’t just the principal. According to Ruck, who “tried to avoid the restrooms at all costs,” the athletic director also “blatantly ignored our concerns.” The principal, according to the New York Post, resigned 10 days after the public meeting.
AFL is now calling for an investigation. “Compelling female students to share intimate spaces — restrooms, locker rooms, and showers where they undress — with biological males is precisely the kind of sex-based condition that creates a hostile educational environment,” AFL wrote in its formal complaint to the Department of Justice and the Department of Education.
AFL senior counsel Ian Prior added, “Girls should never be forced to sacrifice their privacy, safety, or dignity because school officials are afraid to tell the truth about biological sex. Federal officials must get involved, investigate immediately, and ensure that Cabarrus County Schools follows federal law, not woke ideology.”
Cox Mill High School is just the latest in a string of “bathroom wars” in which girls and their parents are fighting for the very basic right to privacy — the right not to be gawked at by males in a state of undress. Some teen girls are wearing sweaty gym clothes all day to avoid changing in front of biological males identifying as females (one girl complained of being exposed to another student’s penis in the girls’ bathroom.) Others are avoiding the bathroom altogether.
Despite all this, one Illinois judge literally ruled in 2019 that high school girls have no right to “visual bodily privacy” — in other words, they have no right not to be viewed naked or in a state of undress by a biological male if that male is claiming to be female.
Fortunately, the tide appears to be turning in the transgender bathroom wars. Twenty-one states now have laws that explicitly ban males from entering private female spaces (such as bathrooms, locker rooms, and change rooms) in government-owned spaces, which includes schools and colleges. Four additional states have laws that define sex as biological and reject transgender ideology, with a similar effect on access to female-only spaces.
Hopefully, the AFL will succeed and another victory in the war to maintain female privacy will be won. It is insane that the war ever had to be fought to begin with.
