{"id":16936,"date":"2022-04-25T17:21:52","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T17:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/?p=16936"},"modified":"2022-04-25T17:21:52","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T17:21:52","slug":"transgender-vs-school-bathroom-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/transgender-vs-school-bathroom-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Transgender vs. School Bathroom Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Transgender pro-family policy advocate who helped win support for the recently passed Alabama \u201cbathroom bill<\/a>,\u201d which requires students to use bathrooms of their biological sex, is warning that school \u201ctrans\u201d policies cause ripple effects of harm to girls even beyond sexual assault.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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In an exclusive interview with LifeSiteNews, Jameson Taylor, who\u00a0serves as director of policy and government affairs for the American Family Association, unpacked the potentially long-term damage that could be inflicted by school policies that allow biological males to use girls\u2019 bathrooms and facilities.<\/p>\n

Taylor believes, for example, that such policies are causing young women to develop an \u201cincreasing anxiety about the bathroom being a safe place.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo even if there are only a handful of cases\u201d of sexual assault by transgender males \u201cthat are verified,\u201d said Taylor, \u201cthere has been a shift in our culture, and I think in the culture of our schools,\u201d in which \u201cBasically women decide, I\u2019m just gonna wait to go to the bathroom until I get home.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat could lead potentially to health problems, that could lead potentially to academic problems,\u201d noted Taylor. Such problems could result in long-term physical harm or academic setbacks.<\/p>\n

Taylor also highlighted what he called school transgender policies\u2019 \u201cchilling\u201d effect on the participation of girls in sports, not only because biological males may want to use their locker and shower facilities, but also because they may accompany them on overnight trips for sports competitions.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhat happens when a biological male wants to go on an overnight trip with the softball team, and then school administrators are afraid of assigning him his own room? He\u2019ll end up spending the night with other young women. And that could lead to very negative consequences. That could lead to sexual assault for those women.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cAgain, I think there\u2019s a chilling effect, [because] some girls are not going to even sign up for the softball team anymore, because they just don\u2019t want to have to deal with this violation of their privacy and safety,\u201d Taylor told LifeSiteNews.<\/p>\n

He noted that although information on sexual assault of girls in school bathrooms is difficult to obtain because the girls are minors, anecdotal reports indicate \u201cthat this is a problem.\u201d<\/p>\n

In fact, as he pointed out in a\u00a0piece<\/a>\u00a0for\u00a0Townhall\u00a0<\/i>published Friday, Rep. Scott Stadthagen, sponsor of Alabama\u2019s \u201cbathroom bill,\u201d HB 322, \u201cwarned that in his research, cases of girls getting raped in school bathrooms are \u2018literally spread out throughout the entire state.\u2019 I have heard similar reports in my home state of Mississippi.<\/p>\n

He further shared, \u201cLegislators tell me their school superintendents are privately begging for statewide protections because they are worried about the safety of their students. They are also afraid of getting sued if the state does not have a clear policy regarding multiple occupancy bathrooms, locker rooms and shower facilities. Both concerns are well-founded.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Taylor, the objections to HB 322 in Alabama\u2019s state legislature essentially boiled down to claims that such a policy will hurt the feelings of a \u201ctransgender\u201d child or cause them to feel \u201cbullied.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut feeling bullied is not the same as actually being bullied. Being asked to respect the privacy rights of other students by using a single occupancy bathroom, instead of a shared restroom or locker facility, is not bullying,\u201d he noted in his\u00a0Townhall<\/i>\u00a0editorial.<\/p>\n

Taylor acknowledged to LifeSiteNews, \u201cWe have to have a balancing of privacy and safety rights for all students in public schools \u2026 but in that balancing we have to be careful that we\u2019re not empowering so-called victims to become bullies.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMaking demands that violate the privacy and safety rights of other students is a form of actual bullying that will cause suffering and anxiety for many other students,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Such a willingness to sacrifice the welfare of girls is, Taylor suggested, an indication that there is \u201can ulterior motive from the left to indoctrinate children at a very young age into this lifestyle.\u201d<\/p>\n

Taylor thanks\u00a0Eagle Forum<\/a>\u00a0for taking the lead in helping to pass the Alabama\u00a0legislation<\/a>\u00a0protecting our youth.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Transgender pro-family policy advocate who helped win support for the recently passed Alabama \u201cbathroom bill,\u201d which requires students to use bathrooms of their biological sex, is warning that school \u201ctrans\u201d policies cause ripple effects of harm to girls even beyond sexual assault. In an exclusive interview with LifeSiteNews, Jameson Taylor, who\u00a0serves as director of Read More…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16937,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[133,5,6,51,1],"tags":[1360],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16936"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16939,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16936\/revisions\/16939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}