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150 High School Students Stage Walk Out to Protest Trans Classmate Using Girl’s Locker Room
'There’s a lot of ignorance, they are claiming that they’re uncomfortable... I think this is pure and simple bigotry.'
About 150 students at Hillsboro High School in Missouri walked out of classes for two hours on Monday over a dispute about trans student Lila Perry's using the women's locker room.
Between 30 to 40 people showed up to support Perry, a senior who has identified as female since the age of 13, who wants to use the women's locker room for gym class.
"There's a lot of ignorance, they are claiming that they're uncomfortable. I don't believe for a second that they are. I think this is pure and simple bigotry," Perry told local news station KMOV.
Down the street from Hillsboro High, two men who claimed to have relatives at the school showed up to protest against Lila.
"Boys needs to have their own locker room. Girls need to have their own locker room and if somebody has mixed feelings where they are, they need to have their own also," protester Jeff Childs, holding a sign that read "Girl's Rights Matter" [sic], told KMOV.
Perry told KMOV that the school was being accommodating, even offering Perry a private Title IX-compliant gender neutral locker room. Perry turned it down on principle.
Perry says she tries not to use the restroom at school, but when she does, she uses the girls' bathroom.
"I am a girl," she said, "I am not going to be pushed away to another bathroom."
We've got the KMOV segment below.
[h/t Gawker]
