Clay students must use ‘birthsex’ restrooms

School board member Mary Bolla (left) questioned the need for the new policy and objected to the penalties outlined in the rule. Erin Skipper (right) called the new policy a commonsense rule that protects students, regardless of their gender identity. Photo: Clay County Public Schools.

BY DAN HILDEBRAN Telegraph Staff Writer KEYSTONE HEIGHTS—Clay County School Board members adopted a policy during its June 1 meeting requiring students to use restrooms, locker rooms, and dressing rooms according to each student’s biological sex. “An individual student’s ‘biological sex’ is defined as the sex assigned to that student at birth, hereinafter, ‘birthsex’,” the…

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