A Minnesota court just ruled that a school district must allow transgender students use the locker room and bathroom that corresponds to their ‘gender identity’:
CHRISTIAN POST – A school district in Minnesota must allow trans-identified students to use bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with their gender identity, a Minnesota appeals court ruled Monday.
The Minnesota Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the parents of a biological female high school student who identifies as a boy. The family sued the Anoka-Hennepin School District in 2019 and alleged that the student (identified in legal documents as N.H.) was required to use a separate locker room when she participated on the boys’ swim team.
“Locker room segregation”
The court ruled that locker room segregation based on sex is a violation of the Minnesota Human Rights Act, which bars discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, among other identifiers, including race and religion. Thus, the female student will be allowed to enter the boys’ locker rooms and showers.
“N.H. identifies as male, has socially transitioned to male, and lives as male. Others also identify [her] as male and treat [her] as male,” Judge Peter Reyes, who was appointed by Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton in 2014, stated in the majority opinion.
“Based on this record, we conclude that N.H. is similarly situated to [her] peers because [she], like [her] peers, sought to use a locker room that corresponded with [her] gender identity.”
The school district had argued that a district court erred when it denied its motion to dismiss the lawsuit. However, the court upheld the lower court’s ruling.
“A transgender high-school student who is denied use of a locker room that is available to students of the gender with which the student identifies and to which the student has socially transitioned states a claim upon which relief can be granted of sexual-orientation discrimination,” the ruling states.
The majority opinion added that “students should not be required to ‘shop’ among schools and districts to obtain a discrimination-free education.”
While this specific court case was about a biological female identifying as a ‘male’, the ruling means that biological males identifying as females must be allowed to use female locker rooms and bathrooms – an idea that many parents will no doubt find repulsive and untenable. And it’s district-wide, meaning parents just can’t relocate their kids to another school in the district to avoid this. Also, since it is district-wide, it will include all elementary schools, middle schools and high schools.
If they are doing this for locker rooms and bathroom, then you can forget about biological fairness in sports. If that hasn’t already gone, it will soon. Minnesota’s Human Rights Act will demand it!