COMMENTARY: Mass. Needs to End Its Policy of Allowing Transgender Boys in Public Schools to Enter Girls' Facilities

Massachusetts -- by far the most liberal of all 50 American states -- recently implemented a new policy for its public schools that could be shocking even to the most liberal-minded educator.

Massachusetts now requires all of its public schools to permit "transgender" boys to use girls' locker rooms, bathrooms, and changing facilities if boys "assert" they are really girls.

This new policy is mind-boggling and beyond belief, to say the least.

According to this policy, a boy does not need a doctor's note, parental permission, or any other requirement to switch his sexual preference, but only needs to tell a teacher that he is a girl, in order to enter the girls' facilities.

The official Massachusetts document states, "Some students may feel uncomfortable with a transgender student using the same sex-segregated restroom, locker room, or changing facility, but this discomfort is not a reason to deny access to the transgender student."

We believe that this "discomfort" of the girls is a valid reason to deny a transgender student use of girls' facilities. Moreover, girls should not have to be confronted with the immoral message that this ridiculous policy conveys.

The new policy also puts teachers in a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" predicament, since it requires them to allow boys to enter girls' facilities. In other words, how will a teacher know if a boy really is transgender, or if he just wants to be with girls in an intimate milieu?

In the final analysis, this policy is an invasion of girls' privacy and is even a threat to their safety.

Indeed, it is a policy that never should have been implemented by the state of Massachusetts -- and a policy that must be nullified quickly.