A California school board meeting turned emotional and contentious last Tuesday (April 15) when a high school student was cut off mid-speech while recounting what she described as a “traumatic” encounter with a transgender individual in a locker room.
Celeste Diest, a junior within the Lucia Mar Unified School District in Arroyo Grande, took the podium to share her personal concerns about the participation of transgender students in s*x-segregated spaces.
“Recently, I went into the women’s locker room to change for track practice,” Diest explained. “Where I saw at the end of my row a biological male watching not only myself but the other young women undress.”
