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Eugene

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Wed Apr 17, 2019, 10:01 PM Apr 2019

Parents Drop Lawsuit Seeking To Restrict Transgender Locker Room Access At Palatine District 211

Source: CBS/AP

Parents Drop Lawsuit Seeking To Restrict Transgender Locker Room Access At Palatine District 211

April 16, 2019 at 9:15 am

CHICAGO (CBS/AP) — A years-long battle has ended over allowing transgender students at Palatine-based Township High School District 211 to use the restroom and locker room that corresponds with their gender identity.

The group Students and Parents for Privacy, which had been seeking to force the district to end its policy, has dropped its lawsuit seeking to restrict transgender restroom and locker room access.

U.S. District Judge Jorge Alonso approved the dismissal of the lawsuit on Monday, meaning the district’s policy allowing transgender students to use locker rooms and restrooms that match their gender identity to continue.


Students and Parents for Privacy argued sharing bathrooms with transgender students caused “embarrassment, humiliation, anxiety, fear and “loss of dignity.” Their attorney, Christiana Holcomb of Arizona-based Alliance Defending Freedom, noted two transgender students who were allowed to use the girls’ locker rooms when the lawsuit was filed in 2016 have graduated.

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Read more: https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2019/04/16/palatine-school-district-211-transgender-locker-room-restroom-policy-lawsuit-dropped/
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