Thu Sep 21, 2023 – 1:34 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — Pennsylvania high school students on Friday took part in a large-scale walk-out to protest the school district’s decision to allow boys to use girls’ bathrooms.
On September 15, more than 300 students from the Perkiomen Valley School District in Pennsylvania walked out to protest the school board’s decision not to pass Proposed Policy 720, which would have barred gender-confused boys from using girls’ restrooms, Fox News reported.
In comments to Fox, school board president Jason Saylor said that he had “voted differently than the majority of the board” and expressed appreciation for the “300+ students who used their First Amendment right to voice their opinion in favor of the policy during their protest on Friday,” though he explained that he “respect[s] the outcome of the vote.”
The proposal originated after the father of a teen girl who attends one of the district’s high schools posted on social media that his daughter had become emotionally distraught after an interaction with a person who appeared to be a gender-confused boy in the girls’ bathroom.
“The fact of the matter is, my daughter will go to school and not
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