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Students at a high school in Wisconsin are speaking out against a new electronic bathroom pass system which allows seven trips to the restroom per week. In a statement, the Arrowhead Schools superintendent said the system “ensures safety, maximizes student learning, encourages responsibility and minimizes inappropriate behavior.”



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Sept. 23, 2025, 2:00 PM EDTBy Max GaoCanadian comic Mae Martin knows their new Netflix limited series — which blends light-hearted comedic elements with the anxiety-inducing horror and thriller genres — may feel like a dramatic departure for anyone who is familiar with their stand-up routines and their semi-autobiographical show, “Feel Good.”“It’s funny because it doesn’t feel like a departure for me,” Martin, who identifies as nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns, told NBC News. “It feels thematically in the same universe as everything I do. It’s introspective, and there’s themes about processing adolescence and identity.”“Wayward,” which premieres Thursday, stars Martin as Alex Dempsey, a police officer who has just moved to the seemingly picturesque small town of Tall Pines with his pregnant wife, Laura (Sarah Gadon). During one of his first days in the city, where his wife grew up, Alex crosses paths with two students from the local academy for “troubled teens” who are desperately trying to plot their escape. As he begins investigating a series of unusual incidents, Alex suspects that Evelyn Wade (Toni Collette) — the school’s enigmatic leader who shares a troubling personal connection with Laura — might be at the center of all the town’s problems.“Alex is sort of the eyes of the audience and trying to piece it all together. It’s so seductive to be in a town that is so accepting and progressive on the surface and is offering him everything he’s always dreamed of,” Martin explained. But over the course of eight episodes, Alex, who is a transgender man, “is grappling with his moral compass and also his intense yearning to have that nuclear family and mainstream acceptance that he’s always wanted.”After Martin rose to fame internationally during the Covid-19 pandemic for co-creating the romantic dramedy series “Feel Good,” in which they played a fictionalized version of themselves, some viewers may have expected the writer to create a new project that would feel similarly autobiographical. But Martin said they have been wanting to make a show for decades set against the backdrop of the “troubled teen industry,” a term used for the broad range of controversial youth residential programs aimed at struggling teenagers.“My best friend Nicole got sent to a troubled teen institute in the States, and she was gone for about two years,” said Martin, who grew up in Toronto. “That sparked my interest in some of the shadier practices and the really strange origins of that industry, which all trace back to self-help cults in the 1970s and this really theatrical behavioral modification.”At first, Martin thought the series would be more of a classic, coming-of-age story in the vein of “Stand By Me” or “Holes.” But after hearing about their best friend’s harrowing experiences at one of those unregulated schools — where she recalled being starved, sleep deprived and forced to dig and stand in her own grave overnight — Martin could tell that a tale about troubled teens being held against their will would be much more in line with classic horror and thriller films such as “Fargo,” “Get Out” and “Rosemary’s Baby.”Over time, Martin said, they became more interested in looking “directly at how many young people are pathologized at such a young age, just for having a pretty normal reaction to a sick society.” “When you take kids who are in crisis and your reaction is punitive, you take away their opportunity to go through all the normal milestones of development, and you ascribe labels to them that really affect how they see their own potential,” they said. Mae Martin and Toni Collette in “Wayward.”Michael Gibson / NetflixMartin said they have found themselves increasingly thinking about “the state of the world that we’re passing down to young people, and about intergenerational conflict.”“As we get older, we suppress so much of our sensitivity and our critical thinking and even our empathy just in order to survive in the world,” Martin said. “So we can’t help but kind of gaslight young people out of their very correct observation that the world is insane, and that there’s a lot of hypocrisy out there.”From the outset, Martin said, they knew they wanted to play Alex. While his gender identity is only explored in passing, “a lot of his inner yearning is connected to that and how he sees himself and wants to be seen in the world,” especially as a husband and an expectant father, Martin explained.“The show’s set in 2003, and I think there wasn’t a lot of fluency around nonbinary identity then and not a lot of they/thems,” Martin noted, adding that playing a man “just made sense” to them. “Who knows where I’ll end up on that spectrum? But it felt pretty natural to me as an actor — more natural than it would’ve been to play a woman.”As the creator and co-showrunner of “Wayward,” Martin is one of the few LGBTQ writers in Hollywood who are shepherding their own mainstream projects. While they said they try not to think too much about their public profile when creating their projects, Martin said it is “scary” to be a queer creative at a time when President Donald Trump and conservatives have been actively targeting and rolling back legal protections for the queer community, especially trans and nonbinary people.Toni Collette and Joshua Close in “Wayward.”Netflix“What makes things difficult is when things are charged politically, like they are now, it makes it seem like even having a trans character or a gay character is a political statement and immediately puts your project in a niche category,” said Martin. “It’s crazy that your career can be affected by political swings like that.”Martin said they see their visibility as a prominent nonbinary comedian in the current climate as a double-edged sword. On the one hand, they want to tell stories that will reach the widest audience possible and, hopefully, in turn, create more empathy for the LGBTQ community. But at the same time, Martin said, they know that their mere existence can be seen as a kind of political statement.They said they would welcome an environment where an LGBTQ character’s identity was “just incidental,” rather than a defining feature of the project, “and the focus is actually on these hugely universal themes and storylines.”In “Wayward,” for instance, “there are nuances that are specific to the queer experience that I think queer people will pick up on and relate to, but those things are pretty relatable to anyone who’s experienced any kind of otherness,” Martin said.Martin speculated that the heightened backlash against the trans community is connected to depictions of trans people that have disproportionately focused on transphobia, bigotry and trauma. “It is a part of the trans experience, but it’s just one small part of a human experience,” they said. “The more we can have diverse characters who are flawed, funny, weird and relatable, who make mistakes, who have relationships — I think that would be more helpful.”Martin acknowledged there’s been a contraction in the output of diverse stories, but they plan to keep “sneaking subversive things” into more mainstream projects.“I’ll just keep my head down, keep inundating people with scripts, and hope to ride it out and do my part,” Martin said.Max GaoMax Gao is a freelance entertainment and sports journalist based in Toronto. He has written for NBC News, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Sports Illustrated, The Daily Beast, Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, Men’s Health, Teen Vogue and W Magazine. 
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Savewith a NBCUniversal ProfileCreate your free profile or log in to save this articleNov. 17, 2025, 6:22 PM ESTBy Tim StellohThe man accused of fatally shooting beloved Northern California football coach John Beam was charged with murder Monday after he allegedly confessed to the killing, court documents obtained Monday show.Cedric Irving Jr., 27, allegedly told authorities that he used a firearm found in his bag to shoot Beam, who was gunned down Thursday at Laney College in Oakland, according to a probable cause declaration filed in Alameda County Superior Court. Beam died of his injuries Friday.Irving was taken into custody early Friday at an Oakland-area transit station after he was allegedly seen in surveillance video from the scene, according to the declaration.Irving appears to have no criminal history, nor had he been a student-athlete at Laney, Alameda County District Attorney Ursula Jones Dickson told reporters. She said the gun used to shoot Beam appears to have been registered to Irving. Irving is scheduled to be arraigned on murder and gun charges Tuesday, she said. He faces a sentence of 50 years to life in prison if convicted.It wasn’t immediately clear if he had a lawyer to speak on his behalf.“He really was the best of Oakland,” Jones Dickson said of Beam, who was featured in Netflix’s “Last Chance U” and coached for years at an Oakland high school before he moved to Laney junior college. “He always had the time. He always had the energy. He always had the heart for the work.”The prosecutor did not identify a possible motive in the killing.A police official previously said Irving allegedly went to the college campus “for a specific reason” and noted that the two knew each other but did not have a close relationship. Irving played football at the high school where Beam previously coached, but that was roughly a decade after his tenure ended at Skyline High School, his brother told NBC Bay Area. Jones Dickson suggested that Beam’s work around the East Bay city of nearly half a million may have led him to cross paths with Irving.”People who do the work in the community — with anybody they come into contact with — that’s coach Beam’s M.O.,” she said, adding: “The contact that he would have with anyone around the school would not be unusual.”Beam, who led Laney to the 2018 California Community College Athletic Association title, coached several NFL players, including 1,000-yard rusher C.J. Anderson of the Denver Broncos.“You mean the world to me,” Rejzohn Wright of the New Orleans Saints said in an Instagram post after Beam’s death was announced.Jones Dickson cited Beam’s shooting and a non-fatal shooting the day before at Skyline High School as the reason for a decision to reinstitute mandatory-minimum sentences for felony and misdemeanor gun crimes. She said that students from Skyline were on a field trip to Laney the day Beam was shot.”They had lockdowns two days in a row,” she said. “That’s unacceptable.”Tim StellohTim Stelloh is a breaking news reporter for NBC News Digital.Joe Kottke and Madeline Morrison contributed.
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