Many school districts would rather stay with misconceptions about Transgender students rather than learn the facts – a rather odd attitude for those whose job is education. This results not only in not understanding their students who by law must attend school every day, but not accepting the realities of what is a Transgender student’s life. This choice not to learn is perfectly illustrated by Betsy DeVoss’s undoing the relevant guidelines put in place by the Obama Administration.

Of course not allowing Transgender students to use the bathroom that coincides with their true gender is supported by the same false argument applied to all restrooms, that of protecting other students from being prey to the opposite sex using a claim of false gender identity to go into the wrong lavatory.

The interesting thing is that the self appointed guardians of virtue are the only ones entering the wrong restrooms as they claim they are assuring that only those who are of the gender designated on the door actually go into the restroom, and to do this, ironically, they become the stalkers. While people go into the restroom for the appropriate reason, whether they are Trans or cis-gender, they face someone watching and peeking at them to check things out.

It justifies Peeping -Tommery often in the name of religion or “traditional values”.

An assistant principal at a West Virginia high school, Lee Livengood, followed a 15 year old Transgender student, Michael Critchfield, into a school lavatory and told him he shouldn’t be there.

He told him to “come out here and use the urinal”.

“If you can’t use this urinal, then you shouldn’t be in here. What if a student said you were checking them out in here?”

Wasn’t that exactly what the assistant principal had done especially as he intended to watch the kid pee?

Although the school apologized for the incident, it took no further action.

The family sought help from the ACLU of West Virginia which sent a letter, but still the school did nothing.

The story went public, and finally, after two months the assistant principal was suspended with pay for four days.

Certainly if the student had gone into the wrong restroom for some inappropriate voyeurism, the punishment would have been swift and severe. This was a case of an adult in authority telling a student to pee while he watched and the punishment was weak and only came after  two months and taking the ACLU stepping in.
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Harrison County Superintendent Mark Manchin, explained,

 “I was able to confirm the interaction with Mr. Livengood and that indeed he acted inappropriately. We need to address it and we will address it.”

As far as the assistant principal, the superintendent said,

 “He understood the severity, that it’s a hot button issue, how we need to handle this, he was aware, and unfortunately we didn’t handle it well.”

The boy’s parents want better training and policies on GLBT issues, and real disciplinary action against Livengood.

The superintendent has dismissed the need for either by stating,

 “I am very proud of our principals and our teachers who recognize those differences and understand that we have to embrace them and work with all students regardless of their race, creed, color, sexual orientation or anything like that.”
He insisted that he thinks what was done was enough because the school has several transgender students and this is the first incident of its kind that he knows about.

Obviously what the school has been doing is not enough, or the assistant principal failed miserably in following the rules, if it was an error in judgment, and not a willful act justified by something outside of the policy.

But it was an incident that happened, and it might not be isolated, and without being properly addressed repeats are possible.

The problem seems to be more with the self-appointed bathroom police and not the bathroom user.