Shortly after, however, Student X began using the secondary locker room, signaling to the female students “there was no place in the school where [they] could preserve [their] privacy under the new policy”.
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Froggatt said in response, “That was what we needed to hear from the public, that they understand the importance of this issue and that it is a safety issue for all students but in particular for our transgender students”.
Named as defendants in the lawsuit are Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Independent School District Number 706 (the Virginia School District) and Secretary of Education John King, Jr. “No government agency should hold hostage important education funding to advance an unlawful agenda”, the lawsuit states.
Alliance Defending Freedom is fighting a Virginia, Minnesota school district.
The school board also discussed preventing bullying, a situation Jordan said she went through in school. “This is something that local schools should be deciding and deciding what’s in the best interest of their students”.
Midway through the season, Plaintiff A was told she could use a vacant boys’ basketball locker room – for privacy.
“We’re on the leading edge”, Froggatt said. But the transgender student went to that locker room as well and took off his trousers in front of her and other girls present.
Almost two dozen states, including Wisconsin, are suing the Obama administration to stop the enforcement of the directive.
The lawsuit alleges that the federal directive “mandates a school policy that creates a sexually harassing hostile environment and violates privacy”.
The lawsuit focuses on an unnamed transgender student at Virginia High School, referred to in the lawsuit as “Student X”.
The school policy additionally granted Student X the permission to participate in female athletic teams, telling female students who complained of being uncomfortable with Student X’s presence in the locker rooms to consider utilizing a secondary locker room.
The Montgomery County School Board, at the request of one member, laid out publicly how they handle requests made by transgender students in their regular meeting. One said she would return, if the policy was changed.
Parent Plaintiffs A, B, D, E, F, and others observed their daughters’ visible distress, including tearfulness, isolating behavior, and anger, over the Policy that forces them to use locker rooms and restrooms accessible to a male and used by him.
The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota, argues that the Obama administration unlawfully redefined the meaning of Title IX to provide transgender students protection against discrimination based on their gender identity.
Thirty percent of transgender students attempt suicide, finds a new study by the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, and many other such students show problems at school.
Under the school district’s policy, the transgender student (identified as Student X) was allowed to use the bathrooms and locker rooms of his choice.
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Two of the girls didn’t return to Virginia High School this fall, but one would return if the current policy was changed, and three of the girls continue to attend the high school, according to the lawsuit.
