Female student slams California school board for allowing males into girls' locker room

On Wednesday, the Chico Unified School Board in Chico, California held a meeting, later published on YouTube, in which sophomore Claire Mossman told the school board that they violated her "privacy" and "dignity" by allowing biological males who identify as transgender to use the women's locker rooms and bathrooms.

"Last September about four weeks into the school year, I was shocked and embarrassed to learn that I had been tricked into taking my clothes off while sharing a locker room with a male student," Mossman said. "I was very upset and extremely confused. I didn't understand how my school could do this to me. I'm a Christian girl, and I would never choose to take my clothes off in front of a boy."

Mossman said that males were using the women's locker room at the school board's invitation. Listed on the school board's website, under their "Title IX Information" page, students "have the right to receive equitable treatment and benefits in the provision of all of the following" including "Locker rooms."

"You didn't even give me a warning or an alternative option. All I got was forced compliance." 

Mossman went on to say that it "doesn't matter who the guy is" and that males do not believe in the locker rooms or girls' bathroom.

"How could you ever believe that this is okay?" She asked.

"I've been to a few of these meetings now and it is apparent to me that you are not at all considering how it affects everyone involved," the Pleasant Valley High School sophomore added.

She said that her father called the school to complain and spoke to a vice principal, who responded by calling the student into her office, according to the video.

Mossman said, "In so many words I was told that if being compromised and violated was a problem for me, that I could walk clear across campus to the single use bathroom at the front. Otherwise, 'too bad, wasn't my problem. It's the law.'"

"You have violated my privacy, you have violated my modesty, and you have violated my dignity," she said to the school board. "To other parents and adults in this room. Please, we need your help. It is not just me. I've had countless other girls, and guys as well, come to me with their feelings and concerns about being violated the way we are."

"The entire student body is under assault and the school board and administration are the ones assaulting us. Thank you," she added.

Her father, Sean Mossman, spoke next and said he was "seething" over what happened to his daughter.

On April 5, the Chico Unified School Board voted in favor of keeping a policy that directs staff not to reveal a child's declared gender identity to their parents. 

California has recently become a sanctuary for children and teens seeking medicalized gender transitions. Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law in September that would allow minors from other states to receive medical transitions without parental consent and would seek to strip custody from parents who do not affirm their child's gender identity.