Fr. Mark Hodges
NAMAO, Alberta, November 22, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — A student-led backlash against trans-enabling “Gender Neutral” bathrooms has parents as well as school officials embroiled in controversy.
Alberta students are finding they are not so comfortable sharing toilets with the opposite sex, whether transgender or not. A lot of students are asking school officials to revert back to gender-specific bathrooms.
Following Canada’s transgender accommodation laws, Sturgeon Composite High School converted almost all its bathrooms to “gender-neutral.”
“The first day of school, when we all walked in and saw the bathrooms were gender neutral and everybody could go into the other gender’s bathroom, it was bizarre,” junior Graeme Gibson told Global News. “First, it was a shock, then everybody was like, ‘Why is this happening? What the heck is going on?’”
Each gender-neutral bathroom has seven toilet stalls and three urinal stalls. The stalls have a gap at the bottom and at the top, and so they are not completely private.
Austin Kirk, another junior, agreed that the bathroom situation was “bizarre.”
“The first time I saw them, I was nervous, and I was like, ‘OK, I’m just going to not use the washroom today,’”
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