Although public sentiment has shifted back toward sanity during the second term of President Donald Trump, there’s still plenty of evidence that leftist social contagions are still alive in certain pockets of the United States.
Education continues to be a hotbed of radical ideas, particularly as they relate to the LGBT agenda.
That debate came to a head recently in North Carolina, as the Daily Wire reported:
A North Carolina school board is refusing to protect female students in bathrooms and locker rooms, despite months of concerns from students and parents.
Trista Ruck, a junior at Cox Mill High School in Cabarrus County, addressed the Cabarrus County School Board in December of 2025 and asked them to create a policy defending female-only spaces at the school. At Ruck’s school, a male student identifying as a woman is on the football and basketball cheer team and uses women’s locker rooms and restrooms.
“Many of my peers and I feel uncomfortable using facilities designed for women and women alone, as he has different reproductive parts than we do,” Ruck said.
Ruck said both parents and students had discussed the problem with Cox Mill administration and the athletic director, only to be “blatantly ignored.” The school’s only response was to make special accommodations for the female students instead of for the trans-identifying student, Ruck said.
One of Ruck’s friends, who is on one of the school’s sports teams, said she noticed the male student watching her and other female students changing while in the locker room, according to Ruck.
“She stated that this made her feel extremely uncomfortable and that she did not feel safe or respected in that environment,” Ruck told the board.
The student was told to take the problems to the principal, who said it was “too political to address, and that any action might be interpreted the wrong way,” according to Ruck.
The troubling exchange soon started to spread via social media, attracting an array of disapproving commentary aimed at school administrators:
Leadership who promote this are just as mentally ill as the transgenders. Enough is enough.
— cultural.ist ™ (@cultural_ist) April 26, 2026
"Go elsewhere if you're uncomfortable"
Okay! That's called homeschooling and I have the feeling that the principal won't be happy when students and families make that choice. https://t.co/IwEetyQf2u
— Rachel Goldsmith (@RachelBTCsmith) April 25, 2026
Despicable cowards!
The girls are more responsible and mature than the school staff adults! https://t.co/OcKv11Zg32
— Ryan Nelson (@ryan_nelso16107) April 26, 2026
The Western Journal added these details:
The school’s stonewalling drew a strong condemnation from Alexis Hughes, founder of You Heard Her, an advocacy for female students.
“This is not about hate or judging any child, and this is not about asking the board to take a position on personal beliefs or ideology,” Hughes said at the board’s April 13 meeting.
“What you are responsible for is ensuring students are safe, that their privacy is protected, and that policies are clear and consistently applied,” she said.
Hughes lashed out at the board, saying Ruck “came to you all for help. You heard her. You did nothing. Shame.”
Other examples of students standing up to authority in opposition to such transgender bathroom policies have emerged from coast to coast, including this one in California from a couple of years ago:
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