UPDATE 9/10/2015:: Three school board members resign after transgender student debate_____
Three of the seven members of a suburban St. Louis school board have resigned amid a debate over a transgender high school student’s request to be allowed to use the girls bathrooms.
During a special meeting of the Hillsboro R-3 school board on Thursday, the four remaining members accepted the resignations of the board’s president, John Stewart, its vice president, Dan McCarthy, and its director, Charles “Bo” Harrison, Superintendent Aaron Cornman said.
None of the letters — most of them only a sentence or two — stated specific reasons for the departures, Cornman later told The Associated Press.
Cornman refused to link the resignations to recent unrest over transgender Hillsboro High School senior Lila Perry, saying that doing so “would be hearsay and gossip, and I’m not going to enter into that.”
“What they wrote (in their resignation letters) is what they wrote,” he said.
Neither Stewart nor McCarthy immediately responded to messages left Thursday at their home phone numbers, and Harrison doesn’t have a listed number. Board members have not spoken publicly about the issue involving Perry.
Nearly 200 students walked out of a Missouri high school on Monday because Lila Perry was changing in the girl’s locker room.
While Caitlyn Jenner and other transgender celebrities have been greeted with almost universal acceptance, the road has been far rockier for transgender individuals such as Perry, the 17-year-old senior who is navigating new terrain at Hillsboro High School.
“It wasn’t too long ago white people were saying, ‘I don’t feel comfortable sharing a bathroom with a black person,’ and history repeats itself,” Perry told Fox2.
The nearly two-hour protest featured both those opposed to Perry using ladies’ facilities and those who supported her right to do so.
“I’m not going to hurt their daughters,” said Perry, addressing concerned parents. “I’m not going to expose myself. I’m not a pervert. I’m a transgender woman. I’m a girl. I’m just in there to change, do my business, and that if they have any questions about being transgender, they are more than welcome to talk to me, and I’ll be happy to explain it.”
Students protest transgender classmate's use of girl's locker room | Fox News
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