April 2014 –Beginning January 1, students in California schools have the freedom to choose whether to use the girls’ or the boys’ restroom based on what they feel their gender is, regardless of their biological sex, from kindergarten forward. The law opening the bathrooms also allows children to choose which gender of sports teams they wish to play on.
Fox News contributor Dr. Keith Ablow said, “The mere fact that teachers and administrators will have to explain to kindergarten and first-grade students that they might see girls in the boys’ restroom or boys in the girls’ locker room, but that those kids aren’t kids of the gender they appear to be, could (and here the data is sorely lacking) do harm to their own developing sense of self by suggesting to them that their gender is fluid, that it might change for them too, and that they should be on the lookout for signs that they want to switch.”
Ablow later explained the danger in this law. He said, “I believe that telling third-grade or seventh-grade or tenth-grade children … that this issue is settled to such an extent that they should feel comfortable with females walking in and seeing them urinating or pulling their pants down to change into football gear is a lie that can steal their ability to trust adults, shake their faith in any form of reality, traumatize them by shaming them and kindle waves of completely unnecessary anxiety related to whether they should be doing some sort of emotional inventory to determine whether they’re really going to turn into men or find out they’re suppressing the truth that they’re actually women.”
