School refuses comment in dismissal of transgender student-teacher
By Gary Huffenberger
Wilmington News Journal
http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2012/05/ohio-school-refuses-comment-in-dismissal-of-transgender-student-teacher/WILMINGTON, Ohio — When an area school district dismissed a Wilmington College transgender senior in January on the second day of a student-teaching placement at Hillsboro High School, the district may have broken federal law
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Title IX federal law, however, "prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, which includes on the basis of failing to conform with gender stereotypes," said a U.S. Department of Education spokesman. The federal department of education's press policy is not to use the spokesperson's name. That department's Office for Civil Rights enforces several federal laws, including Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972.
In April, the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ruled transgender people are protected from discrimination in the workplace, The Associated Press reported. The commission's decision said that a refusal to hire or otherwise discriminate on the basis of gender identity is by definition sex discrimination under federal law.
The 21-year-old student teacher, who at birth was listed as female but who identifies as male and wears men's clothing, was removed from a Hillsboro High School art classroom and told his placement was over.
