A group of parents at Toronto’s Jean Lumb elementary school say the school board’s insistence on maintaining all gender-neutral washrooms is “anti-feminist and discriminatory.”
That description was included in the subject line of a letter several parents signed and sent to the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) on June 21. The parents are calling for a review of any policies preventing the school from designating at least one set of washrooms for boys and girls separately.
Some of the problems parents have complained of include a boy exposing himself to a Grade 1 girl, boys kicking the doors in on girls, girls feeling uncomfortable performing their menstrual hygiene, and Muslim girls unable to remove their hijab to wash before prayer….