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LEBANON, Ind. — REAL News Central Indiana has uncovered video of a Lebanon Community School Corporation School Board Meeting earlier this year in which an 11-year-old 6th grade student at Lebanon Middle School describes how she and other girls are forced to share a locker room with a boy while at school.
“I’m here to discuss the matter of a male being in the female locker room.” The Lebanon Middle School student said as she started her speech to the school board at its January 16th, 2024, meeting. “Imagine this is you — you’re an 11-year-old girl who is coming into school thinking that they’re in a safe environment. You go to PE to get ready in the locker room and you see a boy in there. The first time you saw them, you panicked. Do I change in front of the boy? I feel like I’m doing something wrong. Do I take my shirt off? Do I take my pants off? He is doing so, so I think I should. I see him standing there, in his underwear. That was the first time I saw a boy half-naked — in a school that’s supposed to be safe.”
“I wanted to cry. I felt so uncomfortable. The only thing I’m asking for is that all students can change in a locker room that is matched to their gender.” The girl continued. “If they don’t feel comfortable changing, they could change in a private space alone, making others feel comfortable in their locker room. If I was your daughter and I came to you and said I saw the outline of male genitalia for the first time in the locker room at a school that is supposed to be safe, I would hope you would be proactive and find a safe place for all students, not just one percent.”
Following the child’s remarks, the school board simply thanked the child for her remarks and had no discussion about the issue she brought forward.
RNCI recently submitted a public records request to Lebanon Community Schools for their policies regarding bathroom/locker room use, pronoun and name changes and what are known as “gender support plans.” As of publication, the request has yet to be fulfilled.
An RNCI review of Lebanon Community Schools’ student handbooks for elementary, middle and high schools show the handbooks do not provide any direction in regard to gender/sex and locker room/bathroom usage.
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