Maine rules in favor of transgendered student on restroom use
July 17, 7:20 AM
Author: Matt Kailey
http://www.examiner.com/x-12237-Transgender-Issues-Examiner~y2009m7d17-Maine-rules-in-favor-of-transgendered-student-on-restroom-useThe Maine Human Rights Commission ruled in favor of a transgendered male-to-female student who was not allowed to use to girls' restroom.
The Bangor Daily News reports that the child, who was born male but who has a female gender identity and lives as a girl, had been using the girls' restroom at school until the fifth grade, when a male student began to harass her and follow her into the restroom, using anti-gay slurs.
The school suspended the male student, but then restricted the trans student to a single-stall faculty bathroom. The Commission ruled that the Orono School Department violated the child's rights by preventing her from using the girls' restroom.
