Feather Ruffled, Rights Upheld in Restroom Case Involving Transgender Child
by Kilian Melloy
EDGE Staff Reporter
Monday Jul 6, 2009
http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ch=news&sc&sc2=news&sc3&id=93433Controversy surrounds the finding by the Maine Human Rights Commission that a transgendered child should have been allowed to use the girls' bathroom because she identifies as female.
A July 1 article at the Bangor Daily News reported that the Commission found against a Maine school district, ruling that the Orino School Department had subjected the child to discrimination.
The article reported that the lawyer for Orino School Department foresaw difficulties ahead as Maine schools try to implement inclusive restroom policies; meantime, some parents (and grandparents) are angry with the outcome, and say that boys and girls belong in their designated washrooms.
