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School district ordered to pay $4M to transgender student denied bathroom access
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:
- A jury ruled that a Missouri school district must pay a transgender former student $4 million in a discrimination case.
- The case accused the district of refusing to allow the student to use boys’ bathrooms and locker rooms.
- The lawsuit was first filed in 2014 after the student changed his name and gender on his birth certificate.
A jury this week said a Kansas City school district must pay a transgender student more than $4 million after he was denied access to the boys’ restrooms and locker rooms at school.
The Blue Springs school district in Missouri discriminated against the student based on his sex, a Jackson County jury decided.
The school district in a statement said it did not agree with the verdict and will be “seeking appropriate relief from the trial court and court of appeals if necessary,” NBC affiliate KSHB-TV reported.
The student, assigned female at birth, legally changed his name in 2010 and, in 2014, successfully petitioned the Jackson County Circuit Court to amend his birth certificate to reflect that name, as well as his gender.
But the student was still barred from using male facilities at both Delta Woods Middle School and the Blue Springs High School Freshman Center because he allegedly had “female genitalia,” according to KSHB-TV.
“Defendants again denied [the plaintiff] access to the boys’ restrooms and locker rooms even though he is recognized as a boy under the laws of the state of Missouri,” a court document said. “Defendants continue to deny [the plaintiff] access to the boys’ restrooms and locker rooms as of the filing of this Petition.”
The student participated in school sports in middle school, including the eighth-grade boys’ football and track teams, but was still made to use a separate single-person bathroom outside the boys’ locker rooms, making him feel singled out and inferior to other boys.
The student’s mother, Rachelle Appleberry, filed a lawsuit in 2015 alleging her son was being discriminated against and receiving unequal treatment at school because of his sex. Her case was thrown out in 2016 when lawyers for the school district argued that gender identity is not a protected status under the Missouri Human Rights Act.
The case was successfully appealed to the Missouri Supreme Court in 2019, but later moved back to the Circuit Court, where a jury trial was held in early December of this year.
Source: The Hill
Nick1
December 24, 2021 at 5:14 pm
Sounds like a pervert Obama Judge and a bunch of greedy lib jurors. Wonder how much the tranny and her Attorney are paying them?
edward angell jr
December 24, 2021 at 6:30 pm
Look down in your underwear . If you have female parts you are a girl. If you have male parts you are a boy . So simple even a liberal moron demonrat should be able to figure it out. Nuff said.
The NC Taxman
December 24, 2021 at 6:36 pm
Someone needs to take this little bitch out in back an beat the holy heck out of her. SHE is not a male!
If you are born with a vagina, you are, and always will be, a Woman. No exceptions!
Appeal this case and put this little slut into a prison with a bunch of other women for the rest of her sorry life! She violated the law, not the School District. She should be punished for even raising this totally BS issue. Men are Men and Women are Women. Provable at birth by DNA/Science. If you want to make believe your gender, fine, but do it on your own time in your own home and do not interfere with the rest of us NORMAL human beings! A mental health institute is probably appropriate!
Noel Brinkerhoff
December 24, 2021 at 6:51 pm
Probably a percentage of the award of the court if they decide correctly.
Rat Wrangler
December 24, 2021 at 11:40 pm
I grow weary of constantly reading about lawsuits that pay out far more than the damages warrant. Four million dollars is a lot of emotional damage. This student would have to be in therapy for the rest of his/her life due to that much damage. To solve this ongoing transgender problem, I would force America to get rid of the Victorian moral attitudes that have restricted us for too long. I’d start with ripping out all the urinals in men’s bathrooms and replace them with toilets in stalls. I would then declare that all bathrooms are unisex. If someone goes into a stall and does their business, no one has to know what sex, gender, race, or lifeform they are. When I was young, and more fit, I would take my shirt off on a hot summer day, revealing my alabaster beauty to all. My lovely bride was always jealous, because she could not take off her shirt. While it was not technically illegal where we lived for her to go topless, it was definitely frowned upon, so no women did it just for comfort on a hot day. We need to end this unfair moral attitude for all, not just for a transgender minority.