Imagine being a 14-year-old girl in middle school. You just want to use the bathroom in peace, without a boy walking in. Sounds like common sense, right?
Well, not in California.
The Temecula Valley Unified School District (TVUSD) has come up with a stunning new rule. If a girl feels uncomfortable sharing a bathroom with biological males, she can’t just use a private facility.
No – she’s told she must file a “Mental Health Accommodation Request” under federal disability law.
UNREAL. Temecula Valley Unified School District (@TVUSD) is reportedly forcing young girls to fill out a “mental health accommodation” form to declare they have a mental health issue if they don’t want boys invading the girls’ restrooms at school.
The boys pretending to be girls… pic.twitter.com/s0LAUKCX6Y
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 25, 2025
In other words, the school is treating her like she’s broken, as if wanting privacy is a medical condition.
This form, pulled straight from TVUSD, falls under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act and California Education Code § 56000.
Those laws were meant to protect kids with real disabilities – things like diabetes, epilepsy, or severe anxiety disorders.
They were never meant to punish girls for simply wanting bathrooms to stay separated by sex.
By forcing girls to file this form, the district is telling them: You’re the problem. Not the boys walking into the girls’ restroom. You.
It’s an upside-down world where the most basic expectation of privacy is treated like a disability.
This madness isn’t just happening in California. Across the country, courts and legislatures are wrestling with the bathroom issue.
Just this year, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a Florida school policy that required students to use bathrooms based on their biological sex.
The court ruled 7-4 that protecting privacy and safety was not discrimination under Title IX.
That ruling sets up a possible U.S. Supreme Court showdown, since other courts have ruled the opposite.
Nevada should pay close attention. Our own schools could be dragged into this legal mess if lawmakers or activist judges push California-style policies here.
If this can happen in Temecula, it can happen anywhere.
Schools will claim they’re protecting “student rights,” but the reality is they’re trampling the rights of girls.
Privacy isn’t a “mental health condition.” It’s a basic expectation of safety.
Would we ever tell a boy who doesn’t want to shower with girls in the locker room that he needs a doctor’s note? Of course not.
Yet California bureaucrats are perfectly fine telling girls to jump through hoops, fill out forms, and get labeled with an “accommodation” just to have their privacy respected.
Nevada Families Should Take Note
Nevadans already know how quickly radical California policies can creep across the border.
From energy mandates to election rules, what starts in Sacramento often shows up in Carson City. The same could happen here if parents aren’t paying attention.
Governor Lombardo and lawmakers should be crystal clear: Nevada will not force girls to beg for privacy through government paperwork.
We shouldn’t allow school officials – or special interest groups pushing gender ideology – to redefine basic rights as “accommodations.”
Of course, activists say policies like TVUSD’s promote “inclusion” and protect transgender students.
But the truth is, real inclusion doesn’t mean erasing boundaries for everyone else.
Groups like Gender Inclusive Schools argue students uncomfortable with mixed bathrooms can always use a private stall.
Yet in Temecula, girls can only do that if they’re willing to carry the stigma of a medical accommodation.
That’s not inclusion. That’s coercion.
Privacy isn’t a diagnosis. It’s a right.
Girls shouldn’t have to see a doctor, fill out forms, or be labeled “disabled” just because they don’t want boys in their bathrooms.
What Temecula is doing is nothing short of bullying – forcing young women to choose between humiliation or surrender.
And unless parents push back, it won’t stop with California.
Here in Nevada, we need to stand firm. Our daughters deserve dignity, safety, and privacy – without needing a government permission slip.
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