State rules in favor of young transgender

[Hazumu]

By Abigail Curtis
BDN Staff

The discrimination in question first occurred in October 2007 when the child was in the fifth grade at Asa Adams School. Until then, she was allowed to use the girls' bathroom, although she was biologically male. But that fall, the transgender child was followed into the girls room by a male student who had "previously started to harass her by stalking her and calling her 'faggot,'" according to the Maine Human Rights Commission investigator's report.

After the second such episode, the boy was suspended and removed from the transgender child's class. At that point, school officials told the transgender child that she had to use a single-stall faculty bathroom at the other end of the school, and that was when her parents decided to take the matter to the Maine Human Rights Commission.

[Shana A]

Human Rights Commission: School Department Discriminated Against Transgender Student
Web Editor: Sarah Delage, Multimedia Journalist Posted By: Kristin DiCara, Multimedia Producer 

http://www.wcsh6.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=106520&catid=2

AUGUSTA (NEWS CENTER) -- The Maine Human Rights Commission took up two cases of discrimination filed on behalf of former students at Asa Adams Elementary School; one involving a transgender student and the other involving a male student.

The Commission found discrimination in the case of the transgender student, but not the in the case of the male student. The transgender student is biologically male but identifies as female. That student's family says the Orono School Department discriminated against their child when it stopped allowing the student to use the shared girl's bathroom.

Bathroom use became an issue when another student Jacob McGurn, who identifies as a boy, also used the girls' bathroom and was disciplined. As a result, the school department required the transgender student use a separate, unisex bathroom; a decision it said the transgender student's family agreed to.

[Dana Lane]

Human Rights Commission: School Department Discriminated Against Transgender Student
Web Editor: Sarah Delage, Multimedia Journalist Posted By: Kristin DiCara, Multimedia Producer 

http://www.wcsh6.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=106520&catid=2

AUGUSTA (NEWS CENTER) -- The Maine Human Rights Commission took up two cases of discrimination filed on behalf of former students at Asa Adams Elementary School; one involving a transgender student and the other involving a male student.

The Commission found discrimination in the case of the transgender student, but not the in the case of the male student. The transgender student is biologically male but identifies as female. That student's family says the Orono School Department discriminated against their child when it stopped allowing the student to use the shared girl's bathroom.

Bathroom use became an issue when another student Jacob McGurn, who identifies as a boy, also used the girls' bathroom and was disciplined. As a result, the school department required the transgender student use a separate, unisex bathroom; a decision it said the transgender student's family agreed to.

Some of the comments on that story are horrifying. It shows how truly ignorant people are about transgender issues. One guy even tried quoting the bible and said that boys have one less rib than girls.  Incredible.