Suit over transgender students' bathroom rights to go forward, judge says
By Judy Harrison, BDN Staff
Posted April 20, 2011, at 11:02 a.m.
http://new.bangordailynews.com/2011/04/20/news/bangor/lawsuit-over-use-of-girls%E2%80%99-bathroom-at-orono-school-may-go-forward-judge-says/BANGOR, Maine — A lawsuit over a transgender student's use of the girls' bathroom at an Orono elementary school may go forward, but only after a Superior Court justice dismissed the most controversial count.
Justice William Anderson earlier this month dismissed the part of the lawsuit that claimed administrators at the Asa Adams School were obligated under the Maine Human Rights Act to allow the child to use the girls bathroom rather than a restroom for staff.