PHILADELPHIA (TND) — A parent attending a training event on the campus of Upper Perkiomen Middle School found a urinal when she walked into the women’s restroom there that day.
I couldn’t believe it when I saw it. I had to check the sign because I thought I was in the wrong bathroom. It’s the first thing you see when you walk in. And, it has a bin for sanitary products disposal in it. I was so mad, I left my training in tears,” the parent told Harrisburg100.The National Desk reached out to the principal of Upper Perkiomen Middle School, who confirmed the existence of a urinal in the girls bathroom.
As part of the planning process in building Upper Perkiomen Middle School and as suggested by the building architect to provide equal access in the restroom, all of the student / general public restrooms were designed to include individual private stalls for every toilet and urinal. Even in the men’s room, all urinals have a private stall and not a partition dividing the urinals,” said a statement from Upper Perkiomen Middle School Principal Christine Siegfried. In both the men's and the women’s restrooms, the private handicapped accessible stall has both a toilet and a urinal," Siegfried explains. "The picture you provided is of the inside of a handicapped private stall. All stalls in the restrooms have enhanced functions with higher walls and doors and no ability to look between the doors to allow privacy while in the restroom. These features have been in existence since the opening of the school in the Fall 2019.”Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro has backed multiple lawsuits from high school students suing their schools for not letting them use the bathroom that corresponds to their current gender identity.
One lawsuit came from Drew Adams, who had identified as a male for two years, dressed like a boy, and adopted male pronouns but school officials still forced Adams to use the women’s bathroom.
Adams won his case, but it is still undergoing the appeal process. Shapiro also supported the case of Gavin Grimm, a transgender male student who filed a similar suit in Virginia.
Adams and Grimm argued the decisions against them violated their 14th Amendment and Title IX rights.
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