Key takeaways:
- A transgender former student has filed a lawsuit against the Platte County R-3 School District in Missouri, alleging that the district violated her rights by forcing her to use the boys’ bathrooms or the school’s single-stall gender-neutral bathroom.
- The ACLU is seeking a court order to stop the school district from enforcing its policy, as well as damages for the former student.
- The ACLU has argued that such policies violate Title IX, the federal law that prohibits discrimination based on sex in education.
A transgender former student has filed a lawsuit against the Platte County R-3 School District in Missouri, alleging that the district violated her rights by forcing her to use the boys’ bathrooms or the school’s single-stall gender-neutral bathroom.
The lawsuit, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri on behalf of the former student, identified only as R.F., claims that the school district’s policy of requiring transgender students to use the bathroom that aligns with their sex assigned at birth is a violation of their rights.
The lawsuit also claims that the former student received detention twice for using the girls’ restroom.
The ACLU is seeking a court order to stop the school district from enforcing its policy, as well as damages for the former student.
The ACLU’s legal director, Tony Rothert, said in a statement that the school district’s policy is “unlawful and harmful” and that the district should “stop punishing transgender students for using the restroom that matches their gender identity.”
The lawsuit is the latest in a series of legal challenges to school policies that require transgender students to use bathrooms that do not match their gender identity. The ACLU has argued that such policies violate Title IX, the federal law that prohibits discrimination based on sex in education.
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