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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsColorado family sues school over transgender discrimination
Colorado Springs, CO Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF) today announced that it has filed a complaint with the Colorado Civil Rights Division on behalf of a 6-year-old girl who has been barred from using the girls bathrooms at her elementary school. For the past year, Coy Mathis, a first-grader at Eagleside Elementary School in Fountain, CO, has used the girls bathrooms. In mid-December 2012, the Fountain-Fort Carson School District 8 informed her parents that Coy would be prevented from using the girls bathrooms after winter break. The District ordered Coy to use the boys bathroom, a staff bathroom, or the nurses bathroom.
Coy was labeled male at birth, but has always known that she is a girl, and has expressed this since she was 18 months old. Since kindergarten, Coy has worn girls clothing to school. Her classmates and teachers have used female pronouns to refer to her and she has used the girls bathrooms, just like any other girl in her school.
The Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act prohibits discrimination against transgender students in public schools. Despite efforts to get the District to reconsider its decision, it has refused to do so. Coys parents have removed her from school and are home schooling her until this Complaint is resolved.
We want Coy to have the same educational opportunities as every other Colorado student , said Kathryn Mathis, Coys mother. Her school should not be singling her out for mistreatment just because she is transgender.
Coy was labeled male at birth, but has always known that she is a girl, and has expressed this since she was 18 months old. Since kindergarten, Coy has worn girls clothing to school. Her classmates and teachers have used female pronouns to refer to her and she has used the girls bathrooms, just like any other girl in her school.
The Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act prohibits discrimination against transgender students in public schools. Despite efforts to get the District to reconsider its decision, it has refused to do so. Coys parents have removed her from school and are home schooling her until this Complaint is resolved.
We want Coy to have the same educational opportunities as every other Colorado student , said Kathryn Mathis, Coys mother. Her school should not be singling her out for mistreatment just because she is transgender.
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Colorado family sues school over transgender discrimination (Original Post)
davidn3600
Feb 2013
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Heidi
(58,237 posts)1. Go, Coy! And go TLDEF!
:kick:
myrna minx
(22,772 posts)2. K&R n.t
The Straight Story
(48,121 posts)3. Saw this on CNN's site, the comments section is over 9000
And you can imagine how they are going....
http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/27/us/colorado-transgender-girl-school/index.html?c=us
davidn3600
(6,342 posts)5. Comment section on Yahoo is pretty ugly
Many saying parents should be arrested for child abuse.
http://gma.yahoo.com/transgender-triplet-banned-1st-grade-restroom-173907860--abc-news-health.html
The Straight Story
(48,121 posts)4. Pic: