THIS is the gobsmacking moment a firebrand mum strips off at a school board meeting to protest a transgender changing rooms policy.
Beth Bourne’s brazen antics were caught on camera as she pulled her shirt off in front of stunned officials – plunging the discussion into chaos.
This is the jawdropping moment a mum strips off at a school board meeting[/caption]
The brazen shenanigans were caught on camera[/caption]
The 50-year-old mum has been protesting for transgender rights with the school for years[/caption]
The 50-year-old activist, who chairs Moms for Liberty in Yolo County, was speaking to the Davis Joint Unified School Board on September 18 when she performed the jawdropping stunt.
She said she wanted board members to understand the vulnerability students feel when classmates use the locker room based on gender identity.
Especially since the district requires students to change clothes for physical education, she said, according to ABC10.
Bourne told the astonished trustees: “So I’m just going to give you an idea what it looks like when I undress.”
The activist added: “This school district is saying that depending on a child’s transgender identity, that they can pick which bathroom they want.
“Right now, with this school district, we have children self-identifying into different bathrooms just based off.”
As she began to get into her monologue, the mum started to take off her clothes, beginning with her top.
Taking off her shirt to reveal a bikini underneath, one board member exclaimed: “No, you cannot…”
Ignoring pleas to remain dressed, Bourne hit back and said: “I have my bathing suit on.”
The firebrand added: “Excuse me, this is allowed.”
The trustees then declared recess in order to put an end to her shenanigans.
“I’ve got to finish my comments,” Bourne raged.
“You are violating my First Amendment right, I am putting on my…”
The protesters microphone was then cut off, before the meeting took a break to reconvene later.
The fully-clad demonstrator was allowed a second chance to speak.
The leading board member said: “If you disrupt the meeting again, I will just gavel it in recess and you will be asked to leave.”
But the warnings didn’t stop Bourne from pushing on ahead with her brazen antics.
As soon as she was instructed to star speaking again, she pulled off her shirt – prompting officials to cancel the discussion for a second time.
The fiery activist said: “This is a bathing suit top.”
A second recess then observed for about half an hour.
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She was booted out of the talks[/caption]
Bourne was meanwhile kicked out and escorted from the building by police, according to the Davis Enterprise.
The school board’s president explained: “The Board requires that public presentations to the Board comply with certain procedures.
“In cases where that conduct disrupts the normal course of business, the board chairperson may pause the meeting and request that those disrupting the meeting leave chambers.”
Bourne was arrested for “disturbing the peace”, according to a police report.
But she believes her First Amendment rights were violated – and is now consulting with an attorney.
She told CBS News: “I wanted to give them more of a visual, what does it really look like changing and what would it feel like [to have] somebody of the opposite sex watching you change.”
“If the adults don’t feel comfortable watching someone – and I’m a 50-year-old woman – how can they expect girls to feel comfortable doing that in the locker room?”
The campaigner, who has advocated for transgender rights with the board for three years, added: “The more open dialogue, open debate we can have on topics that are controversial, I think, we are going to end up having a safer society.”
