Grand Canyon Times

PHOENIX – State schools chief Tom Horne has called on “Save Our Schools” leader Beth Lewis to explain her support for policies allowing biological boys with male genitalia to use girls' locker rooms and restrooms. This follows a social media post by Lewis criticizing three grandmothers who had shared concerns with Horne about new federal Title IX guidelines.

Horne stated, “Beth Lewis mocked three grandmothers who visited with me last week and posted on X, asking, ‘Why do Tom Horne and these Grandmas care who my kids are sharing a bathroom with?’ Lewis’ position is astonishingly reckless toward the safety of vulnerable school children. I can assure her that there are countless parents and grandparents who are justifiably concerned about this because of the serious danger it poses to girls.”

He further added, “Lewis owes her membership an explanation for this. These changes to Title IX regulations are outrageous since they allow biological boys to expose themselves to girls in bathrooms and locker rooms and invade the girls’ privacy. They will also cause unbelievable management challenges for campus administrators, teachers, and coaches that will make their jobs much more difficult. Further, there will also be damage to public education as parents remove their daughters from schools that allow this.”

Horne cited a federal court's remarks in the ongoing Louisiana v. USDOE case: “Tennessee, for example, tendered a comment identifying numerous instances of males attacking females in public restrooms that were designated for females only. In Tennessee's view, the new rules would further enable such conduct… In intimate spaces like bathrooms and locker rooms, students retain 'a significant privacy interest in their unclothed bodies.' This necessarily includes 'the right to shield one's body from exposure to viewing by the opposite sex.'”

Referencing former Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s comments on gender integration at military institutions requiring privacy alterations, Horne concluded, “The courts see the tragedies that have already occurred because of policies such as the new Title IX regulations. Beth Lewis and SOS have no excuse for not understanding that as well.”