Oklahoma Republicans Fight Back After Rogue School Board Refuses To Enforce Bathroom Use By SexIt’s an issue that has concerned parents and put the nearly 50,000-person college town of Stillwater at the center of the culture war.BY: JORDAN BOYD
APRIL 29, 2022
The Oklahoma House passed a parental rights bill on Thursday mandating that public schools allow parents to inspect and object to teachings on sexual orientation and gender identity. It also requires students to use bathrooms that correspond with their sex.
The amendment specifying bathroom use was a last-minute addition by Republican Rep. John Talley of Stillwater and Republican Rep. Kevin West of Moore in response to the Stillwater School Board’s refusal to back down from letting students use whichever bathrooms they want.
Despite pressure from the state’s Secretary of Education Ryan Walters and Attorney General John O’Connor, the Stillwater School Board insists that letting students use whichever bathroom they please is protected under the Biden administration’s proposed version of Title IX.
It’s an issue that has concerned parents for months and put the nearly 50,000-person college town at the center of the culture war.
‘Protect Our Daughters’Riley Flack, whose 12-year-old daughter attends school in the Stillwater school district, first learned about the bathroom policy from a friend whose grandaughter goes to the same school as his daughter and was friends with a boy who now says he’s a girl.
“It’s been stressful just because we know that it’s crazy. And our kid is in the middle of it,” Flack told The Federalist.
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Source:
https://thefederalist.com/2022/04/29/oklahoma-republicans-fight-back-after-rogue-school-board-refuses-to-enforce-bathroom-use-by-sex/
