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A federal judge just told a teenage girl and her father that under Title IX, she has no right to a bathroom or locker room free of biological boys.
๐.๐. ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐๐ญ ๐๐ฎ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐ก๐๐ซ๐จ๐ง ๐๐จ๐ก๐ง๐ฌ๐จ๐ง ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐๐ฆ๐๐ง, nominated by President Obama in 2010 to the Northern District of Illinois, dismissed the lawsuit brought by a student identified only as F.F. and her father, James Ellard Fisher, against ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐๐ฒ ๐๐ข๐๐ฐ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐๐ง๐ข๐ญ ๐๐๐ก๐จ๐จ๐ฅ ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐๐ญ ๐๐๐๐ in suburban Chicago.*
The family argued the district violated Title IX and the Constitution’s equal protection clause by letting biological male students into girls-only bathrooms and locker rooms. Coleman disagreed, ruling that Illinois law lets schools allow transgender students to use the facilities of their choice, and that federal civil rights law only requires facilities be โ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ข๐ณ๐ข๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฆโ across the sexes, not sex-separated.
Read Rothman’s full post here.
*Valley View Community Unit School District 365U (VVSD) is a large public school district in Will County, Illinois, serving most of Bolingbrook and Romeoville, plus portions of Plainfield, Lockport, and Downers Grove – Wikipedia.
