Wisconsin School Apparently Told Girls They Have To Change In Front Of Male Student

Mar 25, 2025

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A report published in March detailed how a Wisconsin school forced young girls to change their clothes in front of a male classmate during the 2024 academic year.

The two girls were apparently surprised when they found a male classmate sharing their female-only space, according to an article from the National Review. The school refused to take any action when the parents of the girls complained, and went so far as to tell the girls that they shouldn’t “worry about it.” A gym teacher further noted that any opposition to having a boy inside the girls locker room would be considered “bullying.”

When the girls tried to use a private stall, they were forced to wait for one to open-up, and subsequently received tardy notices for being late to their next class. When another girl “attempted to go sit in the general girl’s bathroom outside the locker room during her gym class to avoid the male student watching her change,” she was admonished by a teacher for trying to skip class, NR continued.

“I was scared to say the reason I wasn’t going [to gym class was] because [the teacher] kept yelling and saying he was gonna put us on the no pass list so I just said okay and walked in and now I’m scared to move because someone’s gonna catch me,” the girl told her mother at the time via text message.

Schools Forcing Girls To Expose Themselves To Boys

“When schools like Westosha force girls into an inadequate choice between exposing themselves to a male student or academic penalties, they abandon all common-sense and their core mission. The law requires protections for girls to have the same educational opportunities as their male peers,” Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty (WILL) said in a complaint filed Friday. “The decision to punish these girls for protecting themselves must be promptly investigated by the Department of Education. We ask the department to consider the allegations in our complaint and quickly remedy these unlawful policies and practices.”

Despite the impact on girls at the school, Westosha principal Kevin Kitslaar said in a December email that he was “aware of the situation and working to find a resolution that is in the best interest of all students involved.” Several days later, an email from the school to parents said that “the district has investigated all comments, and no school safety concerns have been reported. In short, there is not and has not been a credible threat to the students and staff at our school.”

On January 2, the male student was barred from using the girls locker room. “It was a district decision and will be our practice going forward with this student and any other students,” said the school District Administrator John Gendron, NR noted.

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