In a less civilized age, the parents of this 5th-grade girl would have beaten the crap out of the school officials.

For good or ill, we no longer do that. We sue. And (vainly) hope that somebody gets fired.

The little girl was horrified and snuck into the hotel bathroom to call her mom (who thankfully was on the trip as well) and tell her.

Her mother tells me that she was "terrified and really upset about the idea of sharing a bed with a biological boy."https://t.co/hIL6ViIevi

— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) December 4, 2023

The Daily Signal has the story of a young girl who went on what should have been an exciting school trip from Colorado to Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: An 11-year-old girl was assigned to share a bed with a male student who identifies as a transgender girl while on a cross-country school trip, according to a demand letter sent Monday. That girl’s parents are now calling upon the public school system to provide answers and clarification of its policies related to children who identify as transgender.

Represented by Alliance Defending Freedom, Joe and Serena Wailes are calling on the Colorado-based Jefferson County School Board and Jefferson County Public Schools Superintendent Tracy Dorland to clarify “whether JCPS will continue this practice of intentionally withholding information about rooming accommodations from parents like the Waileses, who object to their children rooming with a student of the opposite sex, regardless of the other student’s gender identity.”

Assigned. To. Share. A. Bed. With. A. Boy.

Let that sink in. An 11-year-old girl was expected to share a bed with a boy who thought he was a girl.

There is no potential for trauma there.

Luckily, the girl’s mother was on the trip, and when the little girl called her mom panicked, she was eventually able to extricate her child from the situation. But only at the expense of traumatizing her child, embarrassing the “transgender” child, and having to fight for what should have been obvious and expected.

School officials had made clear that they were very aware that young boys and girls needed to be segregated, and made a point about how they were doing so:

The Waileses describe how their daughter, who is in fifth grade, went on a JCPS-sponsored trip to Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., in June 2023. JCPS had repeatedly told parents that the boys and girls on the trip would be roomed on different floors—and chaperones told the students that boys would not even be allowed to visit the girls’ floor, as well as vice versa, according to the letter.

Separated by floors. Except in this case, where a boy and a girl were expected to share the same BED.

How enlightened.

Are school officials so blinded by ideology that they couldn’t even anticipate that this would become a problem? Apparently so. Not even the obvious threat of legal liability should something untoward happen deterred them from doing something so obviously insane.

Serena Wailes told The Daily Signal that her daughter was “terrified and really upset about the idea of sharing a bed with a biological boy—even though she had a good relationship with this other student.”

“I was really upset,” Serena Wailes told The Daily Signal. “One, I was really upset that she was put in that situation at 11 years old—I don’t feel that is fair to put kids in that kind of situation—and two, that we were not even given the information that this was a possibility before the trip. The whole time they’re saying, ‘Girls on one floor, boys on another, they’re not going to be in each other’s rooms unless it is pre-approved.’ So we’re going through this whole process, not even recognizing that this is a possibility.”

It is striking to me how indifferent people in the thrall of alphabet ideology are to the concerns of anybody not blinded to reality by their bizarre beliefs. One need not be committed to insisting that the boy presents as his biological sex to realize that putting a young person with a penis in bed with a young person with a vagina is not a good idea. They obviously knew this on some level because they were careful to explain how they would keep the sexes segregated.

Except in cases where a boy tells the adults he is a girl.

I admit to feeling bad for both the young boy and girl, who, in this case, are both victims of adults whose ideological commitments blind them to the actual realities of life as a child. Embarrassing experiences are particularly traumatic to them, and the potential that this would be embarrassing was 100%. Perhaps worse than embarrassing.

Apparently and unsurprisingly, the school officials cared more for the feelings of the trans child than the young girl.  They should have cared about the feelings of both.

“Throughout the entire evening, K.E.M.’s privacy and feelings were always the primary concern of JCPS employees,” the letter said. “After JCPS disregarded D.W.’s privacy and the Waileses’ parental rights, JCPS then silenced D.W., thus infringing on her freedom of speech, when a JCPS teacher told the three girls that they were not allowed to tell anyone that K.E.M. was transgender, even though K.E.M. voluntarily chose to share this information.”

No 11-year-old kid should be forced to deal with this, and no parent should have to fight with school officials to do the blindingly obvious and segregate 5th graders by sex in bedrooms.

Everybody involved should be fired. Not one of them will be.