An Oregon mom has whipped up fear of trans kids by organizing a student walkout at a small-town high school to protest a trans girl using the girls’ locker room.

Shannon Miller, the mother of a teenager at Roseburg High School and a graduate of the school herself, organized the protest on Facebook.

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“Some of my daughter’s friends let me know about all of this going on,” Miller told Roseburg’s News Register. “As a mom, I don’t stand for boys in my daughter’s locker room. That’s a private area for her.”

“Students were afraid of getting reprimanded from the school to do this,” Miller claimed, “so we stood behind them and helped them put it together.”

She promoted her protest as an “RHS STUDENT WALKOUT.”

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“Let’s stand together and let it be known boys don’t belong in the girls locker room,” Miller said in her call to action. “Keep our girls safe!”

The high school mom directed students to walk out of 7th-period classes just after 1 p.m. on October 8th.

A couple of hundred students and parents gathered on the sidewalk, according to student counter-protester Cyrus Stratton.

“I have friends who are transgender, and I see a lot of them get attacked by various sources without them being any sort of problem at all,” he said. “In a conservative town like this, I would expect a large turnout, so I want to be there to support that one person who has to feel terrified.”

RHS sophomore Layla Seal said she thinks “it’s really disrespectful that trans people are preaching women’s rights and then disrespecting our privacy.”

She added, “I don’t have a problem with trans people at all until it makes me uncomfortable.”

Said Miller in a Facebook post the following day: “Our kids did great!”

Oregon law requires schools to provide access for trans students to “gender-affirming facilities,” including locker rooms and bathrooms, “in accordance with their asserted gender identity.” Single-user bathrooms are an option to meet that requirement.  

Roseburg School District Superintendent Jared Cordon said in a statement that administrators are “listening and approaching this topic with empathy and care, working to meet the needs of each student and family we serve.”

The district is looking into “modernizing” its facilities in response to privacy concerns, Cordon said, but he also reminded parents of the district’s obligations under state law. He encouraged families to “direct their concerns to state lawmakers, who have the authority to make or amend legislation.”

Miller was giddy online over the response to her efforts. Conservative media picked up the story, and Miller landed an interview on Newsmax.

The high school mom happily reposted – with exclamation points – outraged coverage from an account called “Real News,” which described “Chaos at Roseburg High School!” where students “just STORMED OUT in protest after a male student barged into the girls’ locker room — leaving female students feeling violated and unsafe!”

Miller also reposted coverage from the popular “Donald Trump for President” account, featuring an unsourced interview that’s an unintentional glimpse into the mass hysteria underlying anti-trans animus and the high school mom’s exploitation of it.

Interviewer: How big is this person that identifies as a woman?

Young woman: It’s — they haven’t told us anything. We don’t know them personally.

Another young woman: Yeah, we don’t know them at all.

Interviewer: You don’t know who it is?

Young woman: We didn’t even know that they belonged in our classes or anything at all.

Interviewer: Really?

Young woman: We don’t know these people. They’re not making it…

Another young woman: Which is really concerning for us.

Interviewer: Got it.

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