A High School in the USA has closed its gender-neutral bathroom after a student was arrested for sexually assaulting another student. Who woulda thunk it?
An 18-year-old student from Rhinelander High School, Wisconsin, was arrested late February on charges of child enticement, fourth-degree sexual assault, and exposing genitals to a child.
The Wisconsin Legislature defines fourth-degree sexual assault as “sexual contact with a person without the consent of that person.”
A spokesperson for the Oneida County Sheriff’s Office said the incident took place in the school’s gender-neutral bathroom. The school has now closed the bathroom to its student population. […]
In a statement, Rhinelander School District Superintendent Kelli Jacobi said that “both students went into the bathroom voluntarily.”
“This was not a random incident, both students went into the bathroom voluntarily,” she said. “That bathroom is no longer available to students. The male student will no longer be able to be on the school grounds.”
The school refurbished a former men’s bathroom and turned it into a gender-neutral space in order to make comfortable the students who were transgender or “gender expansive.”
Gender expansive: Please add this to your vocabulary in order to cope in the modern world.
Maggie Peterson, then-director of learning support, said it was imperative to address the school’s diverse student body.
“[W]e started having discussions about what policies and practices … [w]e need to examine so that we can better meet their needs,” she said at the time. “This was a very cost-effective way to do it. All we had to do was swap out the stalls.”
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If there are stalls in the bathrooms then the ladyboys can be private inside a stall; no one needs to see anything that is going on in another stall. Ditto the mangirls so not quite sure what swap out the stalls” means or achieves.
In case you are wondering: Wisconsin Statues created four degrees of sexual assault. The degrees are based upon the amount of force used by the perpetrator and the harm done to the victim.
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