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[h=3]What happened when a room full of Texas parents took on transgender bathrooms
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FORT WORTH — On Tuesday, the first scorching day of a Texas spring, hundreds stood in line in the late afternoon sun, waiting to enter the meeting hall of the Fort Worth school board. The impassioned throng was the largest in more than three decades of school board meetings here, officials said. The issue: school district guidelines intended to accommodate the needs of transgender students. “I was a 10- to 18-year-old boy myself,” said Beau Glenn, 58, an opponent. “If you provide me with an opportunity to go into a girls’ bathroom, nothing good can come of it. If we need three sets of bathrooms, let’s build them.” Standing next to him was Fort Worth music teacher Robert Byrd, who supported the ...Read more
[h=3]What happened when a room full of Texas parents took on transgender bathrooms
[/h]
FORT WORTH — On Tuesday, the first scorching day of a Texas spring, hundreds stood in line in the late afternoon sun, waiting to enter the meeting hall of the Fort Worth school board. The impassioned throng was the largest in more than three decades of school board meetings here, officials said. The issue: school district guidelines intended to accommodate the needs of transgender students. “I was a 10- to 18-year-old boy myself,” said Beau Glenn, 58, an opponent. “If you provide me with an opportunity to go into a girls’ bathroom, nothing good can come of it. If we need three sets of bathrooms, let’s build them.” Standing next to him was Fort Worth music teacher Robert Byrd, who supported the ...Read more