Parents flood New Richmond school board meeting to speak out against boys using girls' bathrooms

Parents flood New Richmond school board meeting to speak out against boys using girls' bathrooms

Share This StoryFor four hours Tuesday night, parents and students in a fast-growing western Wisconsin community lined up at the microphone — many with shaking hands and cracking voices — to confront the New Richmond School Board over a practice of allowing biological boys to use the girls’ bathroom. The meeting, which was not livestreamed and was described by attendees as standing-room only, followed the circulation of an email from the New Ric…

New Richmond School Board to review bathroom access policy amid public division

The New Richmond School Board made a plan to review regulations on separate toilet, locker room and shower facilities on the basis of sex as residents have argued for and against transgender students using school bathrooms that align with their gender identity rather than their sex assigned at birth.