New York – Every New York City public school must install at least one single-stall restroom under a new policy announced by Chancellor Carmen Farina (fah-REEN’-yah).
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Farina said Tuesday that the restrooms will be available in all city schools by January 2018.
School officials say the single-stall bathrooms will support the privacy needs of transgender students and students with medical conditions and disabilities.
Farina says officials want to provide every student with “a safe, supportive and inclusive learning environment.”
Benjamin Davis of the Gender and Family Project at the Ackerman Institute for the Family praised the initiative.
He said the single-stall option will let students meet their most basic needs “without threat of harassment, violence or intimidation.”
Information on the bathroom initiative will be sent home to parents in students’ backpacks.
The notion that an immature child can become transgender is just totally nuts. Lets leave aside the debate of a transgender adult. But why is it legal for a child with no brains to decide such an important issue as gender identity? They can’t vote , have realtions with adults, drive, smoke etc… Why in the world can they determine gender? They are babies and we let them decide that???? And if its the parents deciding, well parents can’t marry off their children or do lots of stuff without their consent. Why are they decideding gender?
Mishiga velt.
That is a lot of bathrooms.
Bezras H’ a haimishe contractor will win the bid for installing these thousands of bathrooms. Something good should come off this nonsense.