I bet the next election will be well attended and these people will lose their seats and new progressive inclusive people will win. That is what has happened all over when the right bigots and haters snuck into school board seats, they go too far trying to erase the LGBTQ+ kids / people from existence, then they get kicked out. Sadly by then the damage is done. What they hell do they want people perving on kids in the bathrooms for? To make the kids scared to use them and to make sure the weird kids are not doing weird gay stuff in them, right? Hugs. Scottie.
By the way. We have a hurricane headed right at us. It will be here Wednesday at around noon, but we have three days of wind and rain beforehand. It will hit at a class three. It is projected to hit just above us but could hit us directly. We will be spending the next few days getting as much done as possible, stocking in cat food Ron forgot and getting more gas and propane for the generator. It is unlikely that pole of ours will survive another storm as it is already leaning hard. Repair crews are already stretched thin in other areas so won’t be able to come rescue us in our time of need. Going to be a very long few months. Hugs. Scottie
YORK DISPATCH EDITORIAL BOARD
York Dispatch
At the risk of stating the obvious, South Western’s elected school board is making some strange decisions.
For the last two years, they’ve fixated on which bathrooms LGBTQ+ kids use. In 2023, officials in this Hanover-area district played musical chairs with school bathrooms in a misguided attempt to appease the loudest bigots among them — ending up with five different types of bathrooms.
After a low-turnout school board election in which several far-right members joined their ranks, they hired a Christian law firm, decided to begin banning books and reopened the bathroom issue. Board President Matthew Gelazela, who was elevated to his post after previously serving as the board’s most vocal bomb-thrower, pointed to Red Lion’s discriminatory policiesas something to aspire to.
These adults want to make it easier for other people to watch your children while they’re in the bathroom. It’s absolutely mind-boggling.
Gelazela, who’s steadfastly refused to explain the logic here, said in a public meeting that the windows help “[add] privacy in the toilet facility” and that they “increase oversight of the wash area.”
There’s a reason public restrooms tend not to have windows — or, if they do, they have frosted glass.
No one wants to be spied on when they’re relieving themselves.
The parents who spoke to The York Dispatch about the latest bathroom renovations said their children no longer feel comfortable using these bathrooms. One of the parents went to the principal and asked for an exemption to allow her son to use a different bathroom further away from class.
Her 13-year-old doesn’t want to be spied on while he’s in the bathroom.
And we don’t blame him.
It’s creepy and weird.
And let’s not ignore the bigger picture: This is happening at a time when this and other York County school boards are pushing policies that would restrict what books students read, what sports teams they compete on and even which pronouns they use.
All of this is part of an attempt to erase LGBTQ+ people.
Cutting a window into these bathrooms is an intimidation tactic designed to make sure students who use the so-called “gender-identity” facilities — and, let’s be honest, any student who doesn’t fit neatly into the worldview of the school board’s far-right majority — know they’re being watched, controlled and judged.
In their quest to punish LGBTQ+ kids, however, the misguided “adults” on this South Western School Board are doing the things they accuse others of doing.
This is an invasion of privacy and a waste of taxpayer dollars.
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Hi Janet. Thank you for the reblog. It makes me very happy if I post stuff others can use. Yes this time it did but why these religious fundamentalist think erasing, shaming the LGBTQ+ into hiding, forcing them back into a closet will stop kids / adults from being LGBTQ+ in the future is something I can not figure out. They seem to think if they can wipe out all representation of the non-straight non-cis kids / people then everyone will be straight like they claim their lord intended. But that ignores the truth. Back in the 1950s there were no positive books about LGBTQ+ people nor movies or TV shows. But gay people were still born and existed. They were for the most part hidden, which seems to make these religious people happy for some strange reason. But now that people were free to be who they really are it caused their Jesus to cry or something because they seem hell bent to take the country back to 1950 removing everyone’s rights including black peoples. Strange how they would want that. Oh well I just know they must fail and will fail as long as tRump doesn’t become president. Hugs. Scottie
You know, when I was in jr. high and high school, kids smoked in the bathrooms (not advocating, just saying that it wasn’t like now re smoking cigarettes.) Also, we put on makeup, bought tampons, traded clothes, fixed our hair, and learned dance moves. Also pottied, of course! The dressing and smoking mostly took place in stalls with the doors open for space, but still. When the smoking would get too bad, the school would send a counselor into the bathrooms to stand by the door, just in case someone needed help with the tampon machine (happened frequently, honestly,) but unsaid was they were there to stem the smoking. I presume the one in the guys’s bathroom was there to stem the smoking only, though the younger guys would clog toilets for fun sometimes. And whatever else guys do in public school restrooms. Time between classes is short, so it wouldn’t be taking up too much office time to send adults into bathrooms if somebody somewhere thought adult supervision is necessary. Windows are just creepy.
It’s the same backwards logic that causes pro-gun electeds to install cameras but not metal detectors in public areas. Cameras collect evidence, but do not stop gun crimes. Not letting guns into public areas stops gun crimes in those areas. Windows in bathrooms just keeps everyone out of bathrooms.
Hi Ali. Well said. None of that stuff went on in the boys bathrooms I was in. This is all about intimidating kids who already feel different from their peers in to not using the bathrooms so they can justify returning to only boy / only girl no trans allowed bathrooms. It is also a way to imply kinky gay trans shit that these hyper conservative religious people think gay and trans do. Of course they know those gay and trans kids assault straight kids so surely they will do it to each other. Let’s watch and then prove how bad they are to the world. Insert evil laugh here. Hugs.
Yes Ali, very true. Listen to the anti-trans talk, and it is always trans girls in girls bathrooms. It is about trans girls in girls locker rooms. Why? Because the right buys into the idea that females, girls and women need to be protected. But from whom … boys / men they will yell. Then fix the boys and men. Trans girls are not boys pretending. That idea is beyond stupid. No straight boy is going to go through years of humiliation and degradation just to get to peep on a girl or two. Heck they all have internet. Any kid who wants to see female sex organs or male sex organs just has to “google” that, or porn. All of this is denial and trying to pretend that all young people growing up are innocent until they reach the magical hour they were born on their 18th year of life. That helps them sleep at night and it was not true in the 1950s that they adore and dream hoping to returning to. It is simply a way to keep their delusions and their hate driven by not understanding the LGBTQ+. Hugs. Scottie
And I don’t mean to gloss over your awaiting of Hurricane Milton, Scottie. I know you guys know what to do, and that even so, it doesn’t help the apprehension with waiting. Not to mention the arrival and the aftermath. You, Ron, the kitties, and all of FL have my best wishes and energy for this to not be bad.
Thank you Ali. I won’t tell you I am not nervous. This is going to be a hard storm. But it should be less than Ian and we have refortified the house since then. Plus the only reason we took the damage we did, losing the roof over the front room and the wall was because of damage from others homes and roofs slicing into ours and pulling our wall out. Hopefully people got their stuff fixed as well. But the reason we can not leave is the two cats. It is too much too handle. Thanks for the concern but we should be OK. I will try to post something right after we get back power because I am sure we might lose it. Hugs. Scottie
I already knew you can’t leave because of the kitties; so many places are not yet pet-friendly and affordable at the same time. No worries about that. A friend and I were talking one evening about an oncoming storm; (this was before I educated myself about supercells and tornadoes) I was scared, and she told me this was nothing compared to the waiting for the hurricane. Without further description, I understood that, with only my level of experience waiting for a storm to come and pass. I’ll just keep bright thoughts for FL over the next several days!
To help you feel better, we are on the bottom south edge of the cone of uncertainty. It is to make landfall just south of Tampa, which is two hours away. It will be bad but not as bad as if it hit us directly. We are more worried about storm surge. Plus what got us in Ian was the debris of others homes that smashed into ours slicing our roof and smashing in a window AC unit. We are ready to handle a few days without power, and I don’t think it will be as bad as Ian was. We have full fuel tanks in the cars and the truck stop down the street has its own fuel truck delivery system, so they had a crew out there directing people in to fill up quickly. Ron has high anxiety and fear, and there is nothing I can do about that. He has covered every window, and done everything possible to secure the house. He is terrified of a repeat of Ian on our home. We will be OK. But I won’t be able to tell folks for a few days as we will lose power. Hugs. Scottie
Well, the storm surge is what’s got me concerned, too. It is good to know your region, at least. I’ve been sweating this morning because it just sounds like FL is not the place to be. But I get how location makes a difference with the weather!
Hi Ali. You are correct Florida is not the place to be, but that means anytime now not just during a hurricane. The really scary part of this storm was it crossed from the Pacific Ocean to the gulf and then regain hurricane strength. But the gulf waters are so hot right now the storm rapidly gained so much strength that it became a major hurricane to threaten anyone in the gulf states. Thank climate change and how hot the world has gotten. A friend asked me why anyone would move to a state that has such bad storms. I told him because when we moved here there were not such bad storms. One or two a year. And they were cat one or maybe a cat two. Thank burning oil and other green house gases for the many harsh storms we have now. Hugs. Scottie
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Thank you for the reblog. Hugs. Scottie
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It’s heartening to see that, somehow, logic and decency prevailed in the end. Thanks for this, Scottie.
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Hi Janet. Thank you for the reblog. It makes me very happy if I post stuff others can use. Yes this time it did but why these religious fundamentalist think erasing, shaming the LGBTQ+ into hiding, forcing them back into a closet will stop kids / adults from being LGBTQ+ in the future is something I can not figure out. They seem to think if they can wipe out all representation of the non-straight non-cis kids / people then everyone will be straight like they claim their lord intended. But that ignores the truth. Back in the 1950s there were no positive books about LGBTQ+ people nor movies or TV shows. But gay people were still born and existed. They were for the most part hidden, which seems to make these religious people happy for some strange reason. But now that people were free to be who they really are it caused their Jesus to cry or something because they seem hell bent to take the country back to 1950 removing everyone’s rights including black peoples. Strange how they would want that. Oh well I just know they must fail and will fail as long as tRump doesn’t become president. Hugs. Scottie
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You know, when I was in jr. high and high school, kids smoked in the bathrooms (not advocating, just saying that it wasn’t like now re smoking cigarettes.) Also, we put on makeup, bought tampons, traded clothes, fixed our hair, and learned dance moves. Also pottied, of course! The dressing and smoking mostly took place in stalls with the doors open for space, but still. When the smoking would get too bad, the school would send a counselor into the bathrooms to stand by the door, just in case someone needed help with the tampon machine (happened frequently, honestly,) but unsaid was they were there to stem the smoking. I presume the one in the guys’s bathroom was there to stem the smoking only, though the younger guys would clog toilets for fun sometimes. And whatever else guys do in public school restrooms. Time between classes is short, so it wouldn’t be taking up too much office time to send adults into bathrooms if somebody somewhere thought adult supervision is necessary. Windows are just creepy.
It’s the same backwards logic that causes pro-gun electeds to install cameras but not metal detectors in public areas. Cameras collect evidence, but do not stop gun crimes. Not letting guns into public areas stops gun crimes in those areas. Windows in bathrooms just keeps everyone out of bathrooms.
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Hi Ali. Well said. None of that stuff went on in the boys bathrooms I was in. This is all about intimidating kids who already feel different from their peers in to not using the bathrooms so they can justify returning to only boy / only girl no trans allowed bathrooms. It is also a way to imply kinky gay trans shit that these hyper conservative religious people think gay and trans do. Of course they know those gay and trans kids assault straight kids so surely they will do it to each other. Let’s watch and then prove how bad they are to the world. Insert evil laugh here. Hugs.
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Which also comes down to misogyny because there’s just that much more interest in where the girls go.
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Yes Ali, very true. Listen to the anti-trans talk, and it is always trans girls in girls bathrooms. It is about trans girls in girls locker rooms. Why? Because the right buys into the idea that females, girls and women need to be protected. But from whom … boys / men they will yell. Then fix the boys and men. Trans girls are not boys pretending. That idea is beyond stupid. No straight boy is going to go through years of humiliation and degradation just to get to peep on a girl or two. Heck they all have internet. Any kid who wants to see female sex organs or male sex organs just has to “google” that, or porn. All of this is denial and trying to pretend that all young people growing up are innocent until they reach the magical hour they were born on their 18th year of life. That helps them sleep at night and it was not true in the 1950s that they adore and dream hoping to returning to. It is simply a way to keep their delusions and their hate driven by not understanding the LGBTQ+. Hugs. Scottie
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And I don’t mean to gloss over your awaiting of Hurricane Milton, Scottie. I know you guys know what to do, and that even so, it doesn’t help the apprehension with waiting. Not to mention the arrival and the aftermath. You, Ron, the kitties, and all of FL have my best wishes and energy for this to not be bad.
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Thank you Ali. I won’t tell you I am not nervous. This is going to be a hard storm. But it should be less than Ian and we have refortified the house since then. Plus the only reason we took the damage we did, losing the roof over the front room and the wall was because of damage from others homes and roofs slicing into ours and pulling our wall out. Hopefully people got their stuff fixed as well. But the reason we can not leave is the two cats. It is too much too handle. Thanks for the concern but we should be OK. I will try to post something right after we get back power because I am sure we might lose it. Hugs. Scottie
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I already knew you can’t leave because of the kitties; so many places are not yet pet-friendly and affordable at the same time. No worries about that. A friend and I were talking one evening about an oncoming storm; (this was before I educated myself about supercells and tornadoes) I was scared, and she told me this was nothing compared to the waiting for the hurricane. Without further description, I understood that, with only my level of experience waiting for a storm to come and pass. I’ll just keep bright thoughts for FL over the next several days!
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To help you feel better, we are on the bottom south edge of the cone of uncertainty. It is to make landfall just south of Tampa, which is two hours away. It will be bad but not as bad as if it hit us directly. We are more worried about storm surge. Plus what got us in Ian was the debris of others homes that smashed into ours slicing our roof and smashing in a window AC unit. We are ready to handle a few days without power, and I don’t think it will be as bad as Ian was. We have full fuel tanks in the cars and the truck stop down the street has its own fuel truck delivery system, so they had a crew out there directing people in to fill up quickly. Ron has high anxiety and fear, and there is nothing I can do about that. He has covered every window, and done everything possible to secure the house. He is terrified of a repeat of Ian on our home. We will be OK. But I won’t be able to tell folks for a few days as we will lose power. Hugs. Scottie
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Well, the storm surge is what’s got me concerned, too. It is good to know your region, at least. I’ve been sweating this morning because it just sounds like FL is not the place to be. But I get how location makes a difference with the weather!
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Hi Ali. You are correct Florida is not the place to be, but that means anytime now not just during a hurricane. The really scary part of this storm was it crossed from the Pacific Ocean to the gulf and then regain hurricane strength. But the gulf waters are so hot right now the storm rapidly gained so much strength that it became a major hurricane to threaten anyone in the gulf states. Thank climate change and how hot the world has gotten. A friend asked me why anyone would move to a state that has such bad storms. I told him because when we moved here there were not such bad storms. One or two a year. And they were cat one or maybe a cat two. Thank burning oil and other green house gases for the many harsh storms we have now. Hugs. Scottie
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