Transgender Girl Sues School District for Making Her Use Boys' Bathroom
a culture war battleground in the United States, with a record number of anti-LGBTQ+ bills introduced in state legislatures this year.According to the lawsuit, R.F.
identified as female at a very young age and has been diagnosed with gender dysphoria. She began her medical transition to female in early 2019 and had identified as a transgender female before she began her freshman year at Platte County High School in September 2021.At the beginning of the year, she was informed by the school's assistant principal that students use either the restroom of their sex assigned at birth or the gender-neutral restroom, the lawsuit said.
The gender-neutral restroom was not near R.F.'s classes and it frequently had a long line because it was used by all students, the lawsuit added.When she used one of several girls' restrooms at school, the school responded with escalating punishments, according to the lawsuit.These ranged from verbal warnings to an out-of-school suspension.
She also received detention on two occasions for using the girls' restroom, the lawsuit said.R.F. said a male classmate harassed her and threatened her with rape when she used the boys' bathroom after returning to school following a week-long suspension.The ban on using the girls' restroom and the harassment caused R.F.
