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  • Horne blasts “Save Our Schools” leader for supporting biological boys using girls’ locker rooms and showers

Horne blasts “Save Our Schools” leader for supporting biological boys using girls’ locker rooms and showers

  • Thu, Aug 15 2024  •
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For immediate release: August 15, 2024
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Horne blasts “Save Our Schools” leader for supporting biological boys using girls’ locker rooms and showers

Social media post reveals stance

PHOENIX – State schools chief Tom Horne says “Save Our Schools” leader Beth Lewis owes her membership and Arizona educators an explanation for her support for having biological boys with male genitalia shower in girls’ locker rooms and using girls’ restrooms.

 

In a social media post last week, Lewis criticized three grandmothers who visited with Horne to share their concern that new federal Title IX guidelines would allow biological boys to use girls’ bathrooms and locker rooms.

 

Horne stated, “Beth Lewis mocked three grandmothers who visited with me last week and posted on X, asking, ‘Why do Tom Horne and these Grandmas care who my kids are sharing a bathroom with?’ Lewis’ position is astonishingly reckless toward the safety of vulnerable school children. I can assure her that there are countless parents and grandparents who are justifiably concerned about this because of the serious danger it poses to girls.”

 

He added, “Lewis owes her membership an explanation for this. These changes to Title IX regulations are outrageous since they allow biological boys to expose themselves to girls in bathrooms and locker rooms and invade the girls’ privacy. They will also cause unbelievable management challenges for campus administrators, teachers and coaches that will make their jobs much more difficult. Further, there will also be damage to public education parents as remove their daughters from schools that allow this.”

 

Horne also noted that the federal court in the ongoing Louisiana v. USDOE, described the impact of the new Title IX regulations stated: “Tennessee, for example, tendered a comment identifying numerous instances of males attacking females in public restrooms that were designated for females only. In Tennessee's view, the new rules would further enable such conduct…” In intimate spaces like bathrooms and locker rooms, Students retain “a significant privacy interest in their unclothed bodies. This necessarily includes “the right to shield one's body from exposure to viewing by the opposite sex.” Id. After all, in the words of former Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the integration of an all-male military institution “would undoubtedly require alterations necessary to afford members of each sex privacy from the other sex in living arrangements.”

 

Horne concluded, “The courts see the tragedies that have already occurred because of policies such as the new Title IX regulations. Beth Lewis and SOS have no excuse for not understanding that as well.”

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