A group of students staged a walkout Monday on their school’s campus to protest its transgender bathroom policy that has frustrated the community of Elida, Ohio.
School policy allows transgender students to use the bathroom that matches their chosen gender identity, LimaOhio.com reported. Community members have reportedly voiced disagreement for months and want the school board to reverse the policy.
An image shows the students participating in the demonstration as they marched out of class:
Walkout at Elida High School protests trans policy https://t.co/Y5i8rMByLR
— limanews (@limanews) November 7, 2023
Meanwhile, student Charisma Akroyd told Hometown Stations there have been several accounts of “boys coming in the bathroom, or transgender girls, and bothering the girls in there. And we’re just not for it. Biological boys need to stay in their own…