Parents at a British Columbia high school are voicing concerns about their children’s safety after the school closed their single-sex washrooms and left only gender-neutral ones for use by students, reportedly without consulting or informing parents.
Jolene Branconnier says her 16-year-old daughter was accosted by boys on Jan. 10 while in a stall of a gender-neutral washroom at Pleasant Valley Secondary School in Armstrong, B.C. The school had indefinitely locked its five single-sex washrooms the day before, leaving only three new gender-neutral facilities open.
She said her daughter called her in tears after the incident, saying a group of about five boys pounded on her stall door while she was using the toilet. “These boys were banging on the door so bad she could see light through the door,” Branconnier told The Epoch Times….