N.C. school board caught up in ‘bathroom bill’ debate after voting to okay pepper spray, mace

[jpak]

Source: Washington Post

Two members of a North Carolina school board are trying to untangle a board vote from the state’s divisive and controversial “bathroom law.”

The Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education on Monday voted to remove pepper spray and mace from the list of items banned in schools, citing concerns that students may need or want to carry them on the way to and from school or at school events.

In the process, one board member invoked HB2 — the new state law requiring individuals use only those bathrooms that align with the gender on their birth certificates.

Now, both that school board member and the board’s chairman are distancing themselves from his comment.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/education/wp/2016/05/11/n-c-school-board-caught-up-in-bathroom-bill-debate-after-voting-to-ok-pepper-spray-mace/

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yup

[matt819]

1. That kind of works both ways

After all, it's not as if pepper spray won't work in the hands of a transgender person.

A transgender person can use the pepper spray to protect herself/himself against abuses and threats from a cisgenered person.