<p>Parents and students crowded into a heated school board meeting in the Pittsburgh area earlier this month to sound off about bathroom use and gender identity.</p>
<p>Controversy <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/hopewell-area-school-district-meeting-bathroom-use-trans-students/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">erupted</a> in the Hopewell Area School District just west of Pittsburgh this month when a junior high school girl told her parents she thought she saw a boy come into the girls bathroom, the superintendent <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV-SjctS8BM" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> at the October 10 board meeting.</p>
<p>Superintendent Jeff Beltz said the girl&#8217;s parents called the principal, who verified through video of the incident that the student who had entered the bathroom was a girl, not a boy.</p>
<p>However, angry parents demanded more details.</p>
<p>One mom who showed up demanded answers on whether trans-identifying students are allowed to use the bathroom of the opposite gender.</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m asking the board members to confirm for me — do you allow transgenders to share the bathrooms with the other kids, like boys in the girls bathroom, girls in the boys bathroom?&#8221; the mom asked.</p>
<p>Beltz responded that &#8220;no one&#8217;s not using their gender&#8217;s bathroom or locker room&#8221; to the district&#8217;s knowledge, at least in the junior high school.</p>
<p>The district does not currently have its own policy on bathroom use for trans-identifying students.</p>
<p>&#8220;Hopewell&#8217;s policy is not a policy,&#8221; the superintendent said at the board meeting. &#8220;The policy is the law. The law is very clear that allows genders to choose the restroom.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;We are not going to avoid the topic,&#8221; Beltz said. &#8220;The topic is rooted in law and legal ruling, whether it&#8217;s case finding, and we are going to abide by those regardless.&#8221;</p>
<p>The superintendent said the district follows Title IX, which prohibits gender discrimination by schools.</p>
<p>However, the district is considering adding more alternate bathrooms, Beltz said. The alternate bathrooms currently available are the office bathroom or the nurse&#8217;s bathroom.</p>
<p>One father <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/hopewell-area-school-district-meeting-bathroom-use-trans-students/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">challenged</a> the board members, &#8220;Are you not invading my daughter&#8217;s privacy when a man walks into her bathroom?&#8221;</p>
<p>Another mother raised her concerns about potential bathroom assaults occurring or boys trying to record videos of girls in the restroom.</p>
<p>&#8220;The administrators know their students, know if somebody&#8217;s being a wise guy &#8230; this just doesn&#8217;t all of a sudden popped up,&#8221; one board member responded.</p>
<p>Gender identity, bathroom use, and parental notification in school policies have become hot-button issues in recent years. Parents across the country have expressed concerns about children being allowed to use the bathrooms of the opposite gender or adopt a new gender identity behind their parents’ backs.</p>

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