Showing posts with label Title IX. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Title IX. Show all posts
Friday, April 8, 2016
Saturday, October 17, 2015
"Chicago Transgender Student Files Complaint for Access to Girls' Locker Room"
"Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) has informed District 211, Illinois’ largest school district, that it is in violation of federal law by refusing to allow a male student who identifies as female to use the girl’s locker room."
The student, whose name has been kept private, first filed a complaint with support from the ACLU of Illinois in early 2014. Following precedent in two similar cases in California, District 211 was informed that depriving the student of equal access to facilities violates Title IX’s sex nondiscrimination protections, calling such treatment “inadequate and discriminatory.”...
A statement issued by the district says that it supports transgender students, but that locker room access presents a unique set of challenges...
If the district cannot reach a compromise with federal officials, it risks losing some of the $6 million it receives in federal funding.What a crying shame.
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