TORONTO – Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, a Republican candidate for president, was only joking a few months ago when he said he wished that transgender students had been allowed to use the showers of their choice when he was in high school.

“Now I wish that someone told me that when I was in high school that I could have felt like a woman when it came time to take showers in PE,” said Huckabee. “I’m pretty sure that I would have found my feminine side and said, ‘Coach, I think I’d rather shower with the girls today.’”

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Huckabee was using absurd humor to make an obvious point. The federal government’s highly successful effort to force schools to allow transgender boys to use girls restrooms, and vice versa, has the potential to lead to abuse and possible danger.

Now there’s concrete evidence that trouble can and will occur when biological males and females undress in the same public restrooms and shower rooms.

In September, several male students in a co-ed residence hall at the University of Toronto were caught holding their cell phones over female students’ shower stalls and filming them as they washed themselves.

The shower facilities in the residence hall, like all such facilities on campus, were designated for co-ed use due to transgender sensitivity.

One might think, given the serious nature of the alleged incidents, that the university might reconsider having co-ed facilities.

As the Daily Wire put it, “The administration at the University of Toronto was recently enlightened on why two separate washrooms are generally established for men and women sharing co-ed residences.”

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But as it turns out, the enlightenment was very limited and temporary.

When the Daily Wire checked back to see if the university had changed its policies across campus, that was not the case.

Melinda Scott, dean of students at the University of Toronto, told the publication, “Given the serious nature of these incidents and the impact on directly affected students, we made the decision to specifically designate some washrooms in Whitney Hall for those who identify as men and those who identify as women.”

But that is just a “temporary measure,” she said, “to provide a safe space for the women who have been directly impacted by the incidents of voyeurism and other students who may feel more comfortable in a single gender washroom in the wake of these events.”

In fact, “more than 50% of the washrooms in the residence remain gender-neutral.”

And the temporary changes are completely limited to Whitney Hall. Apparently university officials believe this type of crime could not happen in any other building, because they announced that “there has been no change to the designation of gender-neutral washrooms in the other University College residences or elsewhere on campus as a result of these incidents.”

After all, remaining politically correct and sensitive to the plight of transgendered people is apparently far more important than student privacy or safety.