Friday, November 12, 2021

Transgender Students Sue Their High School For Gender Recognition

Suit was filed in an Indiana federal district court this week by two transgender male high school students against their school. The complaint (full text) in B.E. and S.E. v. Vigo County School Corp., (SD IN, filed 11/8/2021) alleges in part:

Defendants’ failure to recognize the plaintiffs as male and to allow them to use male restrooms and the male locker room and to require that they be addressed by the names and pronouns consistent with their male gender violates both the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972....

Los Angeles Blade reports on the lawsuit.