POTTERVILLE, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – Michigan News Source first brought the story to you in mid-December about gender bathroom issues creating havoc in Michigan schools.

In Potterville, community members showed up at a school board meeting in the beginning of December to discuss the school district’s bathroom policies.

What lead to the gender bathroom discussion?

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Parents and community members learned through Facebook about a transgender student who was using a specific bathroom in one of the schools.

WLNS-TV6 had reported that those in the meeting who were against the student’s use of that bathroom said that school officials should keep in mind other students’ wishes and should only allow people in specific bathrooms that align with their birth-assigned gender.

Feeling comfortable in bathrooms.

Those on the opposite side of the issue said that the transgender community should feel comfortable using whichever bathroom they prefer.

What did the school board decide?

On Monday night, the school board made the decision to allow transgender students at Potterville Public Schools to continue to use the restroom for the gender that they identify with.

The Board of Education meeting brought out several dozen community members including parents and faith leaders. But after all was said and done, the board decided to keep the current bathroom policy and also spend more than $12K to renovate four bathrooms into single-stall unisex ones.

Opponents speak out.

The board’s decision upset some of the parents at the meeting. Brittany Archer said, “A lot of parents are fed up. They are $400,000 in the hole because people are pulling their students and mine are being pulled next.”

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LGBTQ activists at the meeting called the renovations a “neutral ground” and were happy to see the bathroom policy stand despite the opposition that was against it.

What would have happened if the vote went the other way?

Kallie Strouse, vice president of activist group, I’ll Be Your Rock, a rural LGBTQ+ support group based in Vermontville threatened, “That would definitely entail some legalities for the school. And they don’t need to be in more financial crisis than they already are.”

Kristi Tullis, the stepparent of a trans student in the school system said, “She has done nothing to anyone in this community but be kind, generous and polite. She’s not going to be in the locker rooms. She’s a scholar, not an athlete. She is a danger to no one.”

The members of the board said they will also look further into what would be needed to overhaul some of the other bathrooms in the district in order to create single-stall unisex restrooms.