Chicago-area school district defies government on transgender access

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

US | Fri Oct 23, 2015 4:22pm EDT

Chicago-area school district defies government on transgender access

CHICAGO | BY FIONA ORTIZ

A suburban Chicago high-school district is defying federal rules by denying a transgender student unrestricted access to a girls' locker room in a case that could cost the district millions of dollars in aid and shape a national standard on the issue.

The Township High School District 211, with seven high schools in the suburbs west of Chicago, has provided separate spaces for transgender students to change and shower, but it has refused to go further, saying the privacy needs of other students were at stake.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois, which brought the lawsuit in 2013 on behalf of a transgender student who identifies as female, has said the arrangement is discriminatory and that it stigmatizes transgender students.

Negotiations between the district and the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights (OCR) have failed to resolve the impasse.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/23/us-illinois-transgender-idUSKCN0SH2H120151023

[marym625]

1. how is this such a fucking problem for some people?

Do they actually believe that transgender students are doing this just to look at people of the gender they identify as?

Dog damn, some people are too ignorant for words.

[LostOne4Ever]

2. It sad and shameful

[font style="font-family:'Georgia','Baskerville Old Face','Helvetica',fantasy;" size=4 color=teal]And it is proof that we on the left need to do more to promote transgender acceptance![/font]