The Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District will no longer allow transgender students to use communal bathrooms and locker rooms that match their gender identity after the school board voted 5-1 to suspend its previous policy.
Dozens of parents and other community members spoke in favor of suspending a Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District policy allowing transgender students to use the bathroom or locker room of their choice on Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2022.
The board’s policy committee suggested the change after a parent contacted the board about a transgender girl changing in a high school girls’ locker room.the Biden administration’s Title IX guidance prohibiting discrimination based on gender identity in schools. The school board’s policy committee cited that order in its request to suspend the district’s bathroom and locker room policy.
Others cited religious beliefs and denied that gender identity could be different than biological sex. Some parents brought up similar arguments in June, when the boardfrom girls’ sport teams. Throughout the meeting, board vice president Jim Hart asked attendees to refrain from applauding the speakers.
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