USA-LGBTIQ+ – TELAM Agency
Public school students in the state of Idaho, in the northwestern United States, will be able to use bathrooms that do not correspond to their sex assigned at birth, according to the ruling of a federal judge responding to a lawsuit filed by a student’s family high school transgender against a project approved by the Republican local government.
Justice David Nye said his restraining order is temporary but calls for preserving the status quo until he could fully consider what is “the most appropriate approach at the current juncture,” NBC News reported late yesterday. .
“The court’s ruling will be a relief to transgender students in Idaho, who are entitled to dignity, safety and respect at school,” said attorney for the plaintiffs, Peter Renn.
The lawsuit, filed by a trans student under the pseudonym Rebeca Roe with the support of a student association, claims that state law signed in March by Republican Gov. Brad Little discriminates against people based on their gender identity and violates the right to Privacy.
Republican-led states have passed numerous laws targeting transgender youth in the past two years, including so-called “bathroom bills” like the one in Idaho and bans on gender-affirming medical treatments for minors, the Europa news agency reported. Press.
The Idaho rule, now temporarily halted by the courts, allowed students to sue schools for $5,000 if they encounter a transgender student in a bathroom that the law prohibits.
Additionally, it orders educational institutions to provide a “reasonable accommodation” for transgender people who are unwilling or unable to use their assigned bathroom.
But according to Rebeca Roe’s lawsuit, alternative restrooms are “often inferior to facilities used by others, located in less accessible and stigmatizing locations for their use.”
Federal courts were divided on school policies that require transgender students to use the bathroom corresponding to their birth sex.
Source: Ambito
