N.C. school board member: Use pepper spray against transgender students

A North Carolina school board voted to allow high school students to carry pepper spray at school for protection, but one board member went a step further and suggested the defense mechanism could help protect female students from transgender students should the state’s “bathroom bill” be overturned.

“Depending on how the courts rule on the bathroom issues, it may be a pretty valuable tool to have on the female students if they go to the bathroom, not knowing who may come in,” Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education member Chuck Hughes said at a meeting, according to the Salisbury Post.