Kingston High School Considers Transgender Policies

It may be another month before the Kingston High School Policy Committee issues final guidelines on accommodations for the transgender use of bathrooms and lockers in the school, according to the Kingston Freeman.

The Kingston High School Board of Education met on March 30 but came to no final decision. Accommodations currently being discussed include single cell block bathrooms, access to a unisex restroom or use of an employee facility, according to the paper.

Kingston resident Jolyn Safron spoke at the meeting, saying that children should be protected from seeing the unclothed or partially clothed bodies of children of another gender, journalist William J. Kemble reported. The school’s assistant principal Debra Fitzgerald commented on the advocacy efforts of some of the school’s transgender students.

The provisions are being considered in conjunction with a $137.5 million renovation plan that will include, among other things, adding more locker rooms.

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