An 18-year-old California student called out her school district for “endangering women” after video emerged of a female trans student assaulting two girls after an apparent encounter in the locker room.
Megan Simpkins, a senior at Martin Luther King High School, slammed the Riverside Unified School District board at its recent meeting for allowing the transgender student — who was born a biological boy — to use the girls’ locker room and restroom. to use.
She asks the board why the female students “never have a say in whether or not we like this.”
Simpkins suggested that the school board should make changes to ensure the safety of its students in the wake of the video, which showed a trans girl pushing and hitting two smaller girls at the school.
The fight came when students said the transgender woman had a history of displaying her genitals in the bathrooms and locker rooms.
Megan Simpkins, a senior at Martin Luther King High School, slammed the Riverside Unified School District board at its recent meeting for allowing a transgender student to use the girls’ locker room and restroom
Her comments came in response to a viral video in which a transgender student, in a gray hoodie and dark jeans, shoved a shorter girl at Martin Luther King Jr High School after an apparent confrontation in the locker room.
The viral video showed a little girl confronting the trans student, who lifts her up and pushes her against a table.
The girl then pushes her back, after which the trans student hovers directly above the girl and pushes her back again.
When the girl recovers, she and one of her friends try to fight back the trans student, who is wearing a gray hoodie and dark jeans.
In response, the unnamed transgender student begins beating and knocking them to the ground.
After the video went viral, parents and students said FOS 11 the transgender student has a history of “erratic and awkward behavior.”
“He spat on my friends, they’re girls, women,” said student Aiden Vermier. “He shows his genitals in the locker room.”
Riverside Police claimed it wasn’t the first time the trans student had been involved in an altercation at the school. In the aftermath, the school district released a statement reaffirming its commitment to safety.
“Since the incident, district staff have worked to ensure that the safety and rights of all students are considered and responded to promptly,” the school board said in the statement posted to Twitter on April 27.
“We can verify that the affected student is no longer attending King High School,” it added.
Riverside Unified School District officials announced on Twitter that the student in question is no longer attending high school (pictured)
But that statement didn’t seem to do enough to reassure Simpkins, who took the microphone at the district board meeting later that night.
“Good evening ladies and gentlemen, and only ladies and gentlemen it is and always will be,” she began her remarks before discussing the video.
“There was an incident in our district recently where a transgender woman, who is really a biological male, had an argument with a young woman at MLK high school,” she continued, noting that the video made her “furious.”
“But what was detrimental about this is the fact that this man uses and has used the women’s room and locker room.
“First, the question we need to answer is why are we affirming this boy’s mental confusion and endangering women’s safety by allowing mentally confused men to use women’s areas?” asked Simpkins in her diatribe.
“Of course any man who claims to be a woman will accept that, but what about the women? What about the real girls like me who are women in our DNA? Why do we never have a say in whether or not we feel comfortable with this?
“The truth is we are not, most of us are not,” she said, “and yet nothing has been done to protect the safety of these women.
“That concludes,” Simpkins told the school board. ‘It all starts with you. You are responsible for the safety of us women.’