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South Western’s elected school board is making some strange decisions.

For the last two years, they’ve fixated on which bathrooms LGBTQ+ kids use. In 2023, officials in this Hanover-area district played musical chairs with school bathrooms in a misguided attempt to appease the loudest bigots among them — ending up with five different types of bathrooms.

After a low-turnout school board election in which several far-right members joined their ranks, they hired a Christian law firm, decided to begin banning books and reopened the bathroom issue. Board President Matthew Gelazela, who was elevated to his post after previously serving as the board’s most vocal bomb-thrower, pointed to Red Lion’s discriminatory policies as something to aspire to.

Now, upon the advice of that law firm — the Harrisburg-based Independence Law Center — the board approved spending $8,700 to cut windows so passersby can look into the so-called “gender-identity” student bathrooms.

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[–] 800XL 16 points 12 hours ago

That's weird as hell.

[–] A_Random_Idiot 38 points 17 hours ago

man from the child molester party wants windows in childrens bathrooms for totally not molester reasons.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

starting to think the anti trans crusaders are just paedophiles looking to legitimise paedophilia.

[–] ZombieMantis 5 points 17 hours ago

Pedo-con theory is a "theory", like the theory of Gravity is "only a theory."

[–] WoahWoah 22 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (5 children)

This won't help much, hard to tell much just by someone's face. What we need here is a window specifically for viewing the children's genitalia. And then we need a dedicated monitor to watch all the children use the bathroom.

John, the repressed religious fundamentalist, has already volunteered. We've designed a room where he can monitor the genitalia from the holes we've cut, and we've also installed cameras inside the urinals and toilets with a feed that goes to the monitoring room, in case anyone tries to defeat our system.

The monitoring room has no windows or cameras in it, and the door locks from the inside, so, I think we've finally solved the problem. Consider the liberals owned!

[–] Fredselfish 9 points 18 hours ago

What fucking law firm approved this? Must be one Trump uses. Because letting people look in on underage kids in the bathroom must be unconstitutional not to mention illegal? If that was going on in my kids school I be suing.

[–] ChronosTriggerWarning 7 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] WoahWoah 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Wow that's a pretty disgusting clip even for Southpark

[–] ChronosTriggerWarning 6 points 18 hours ago

Disgusting? Yes.

Accurate? Also yes, unfortunately.

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[–] ngwoo 30 points 20 hours ago

Conservative Christians increase their involvement and within a year the children's bathroom has a viewport for pedophiles installed.

[–] 2ugly2live 28 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

They go on and on about how they don't want the dangerous transgenders in the bathroom, but now anyone can peek in to confirm... What, exactly? It's not like the windows are in the stalls, so just for them assume someone gender? "You look too feminine, no boys room for you. Sorry, too masculine, no ladies room." What's next, strip searches? Wtf is it with them and the bathroom...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 18 hours ago

Wtf is it with them and the bathroom…

They really love people's gentials. The younger the genital, the better.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil 14 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

What’s next, strip searches?

Hardly "what's next". This has been a fixation by conservatives since since the Obama Administration

Aimee Toms was washing her hands in the women’s bathroom at Walmart in Danbury Friday when a stranger approached her and said, “You’re disgusting!” and “You don’t belong here!”

After momentary confusion, she realized that the woman next to her thought — because of her pixie-style haircut and baseball cap — that she was transgender.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Longer than that, even! Circa 2003/04 my 14 year old ass was getting chewed out by shitty Karens because they couldn't fathom the idea of a young teen girl sporting a pixie cut and wearing baggy metal tees, skate jeans and vans. I've actually resorted - more than once - to showing my used menstrual products as proof. Well, more as a way to harass them back, but. You know.

Joke's on me, though, I guess, since I'm actually genderfluid lol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

I've actually resorted - more than once - to showing my used menstrual products as proof.

That's metal.

[–] rsuri 5 points 15 hours ago

And the school board president ran as a member of the "Libertarian Party".

[–] mvirts 1 points 11 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 15 points 22 hours ago

The only way to stop a bad guy with a window in your child's bathroom to watch them pee, is a good guy with a window in your child's bathroom to watch them pee

[–] blazeknave 42 points 1 day ago

Yeah... Protect me from those creeps watching my kid in the bathroom.. wait..

[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Whoever approved this is clearly very weird.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 day ago (12 children)

Yeah, is this not like blatantly pedophilic? Very weird

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[–] Sarmyth 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Perverts and child abusers, the lot.

[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt 7 points 22 hours ago

They're so concerned about what's going on inside children's pants that they now was to watch them in bathroom.

Sounds pretty fucking weird to me

[–] forrcaho 234 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

You've always got to show up for those school board elections now. Every. Single. Time.

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[–] Cryophilia 24 points 1 day ago

After a low-turnout school board election in which several far-right members joined their ranks, they hired a Christian law firm, decided to begin banning books and reopened the bathroom issue.

Fucking VOTE you dumb sons of bitches!

[–] [email protected] 181 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (18 children)

These are the people who continually call everyone on the left "groomers" and taking an unhealthy interest in kids? The same people cutting peepholes into school bathrooms?

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