On Friday, students at the Milford, New Hampshire middle school and high school staged a walkout. The protest came in response to a new directive handed down by the district’s school board regarding bathroom access. As usual, this was yet another protest over the school’s policies regarding transgender (or gender-confused) students. The district had previously allowed students to use the bathrooms (but not the showers or locker rooms) based on their gender “identity” rather than their actual gender. But in response to protests by parents, they moved to reverse the rule and restrict bathroom access based on biological sex. This conflict called for a “compromise” by the board, which then decided to stick with the biological sex rule, but they blocked the use of urinals by anyone. (No… don’t ask me what they were thinking. I have no idea.) The following is from the Associated Press.

Dozens of students walked out of their New Hampshire school after the district banned urinals in a compromise to a proposal that would have blocked children from using facilities based on their gender identity.

The school board decided a few days before the Friday walkout to prohibit students at Milford Middle School and Milford High School from using urinals or shared spaces in locker rooms.

The ban in a town of about 15,000 people roughly 35 miles (56 kilometers) from Concord, New Hampshire’s capital, was the culmination of a long debate about district rules about bathroom use and gender identity.

It’s unclear how having the actual boys use the boys’ room and the actual girls use the girls’ room is a “compromise.” But Board member Noah Boudreault told parents, “I want to be clear, it was a compromise to both sides of this issue.”

The compromise also capped the maximum occupancy of each bathroom to the number of commode stalls it contains. That’s not an issue for the girls’ rooms, of course, since they only have stalls. But what is the purpose of blocking off the urinals in the boys’ rooms? All that’s going to do is make the lines longer when students are waiting to use the facilities.

One upside to the board’s various decisions is that they reinforced the rule that changing rooms and showers were not to be shared by both genders. It seems as if the parents in the small town (population 15,000) were not going to stand for boys or “girls with penises” watching the actual girls get changed or use the showers.

All of this nonsense is just the latest chapter in a frustrating drama that has dragged out across the country for far too long. These policies being implemented in Milford are obviously nonsensical no matter which side of this debate you support. The choice should be fairly straightforward. Either you believe in medical science and biological reality or you surrender to the woke mob and place children – particularly young girls – in dangerous situations.

You’re never going to be able to please both sides, so there is no legitimate “compromise” to be made. In the end, unless a line is drawn, schools will wind up having to do what other facilities have done and make all bathrooms single-use only. Of course, that takes up a lot more space and will cost a lot of money that many school budgets won’t be able to afford. If any of the parents who really want their sons to become their daughters can’t handle it, tell them to move to Loudoun County, Virginia, and see how that works out for them.