Vt. Trans Teen Adds Voice to Non-Gender Bathrooms
by Wilson Ring
Associated Press
Wednesday Sep 23, 2009
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A transgender teenager is lending his voice to a movement in Vermont to require the state's middle and high schools to offer genderless bathrooms.
Kyle Giard-Chase, 16, asked the Vermont Human Rights Commission on Thursday to endorse the effort. He said that before he came out last year as transgendered, he was a three-sport athlete and the co-captain of the field hockey team, a girls' sport, at South Burlington High School.
At an away game, he said he was verbally harassed and threatened by the members of the host school's football team for using the girls' restroom.