The school board’s decision at a crowded meeting suspends Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District guidelines in place since before 2015.
People applaud after the Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District school board voted 5-1 on Wednesday evening to no longer allow transgender students to choose bathrooms that match their gender identity.
Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District superintendent Randy Trani listens to pubic testimony during the school board meeting in Palmer on Wednesday evening, Sept. 7, 2022. The mother of a student at Colony told the board her daughter was in the locker room “and realized there was a biological male” in the locker room with her. She also said she’d received threats and harassing messages after voicing her concerns publicly.
“Students’ use of the bathroom has become an oversexualized conversation amongst persons outside of school,” Schachle said.