Maine Court: Transgender Student Can Choose Bathroom

Had been forced to use staff bathroom rather than girls' room

Maine's highest court says a transgender student should have been allowed to use the bathroom of her choice.

The Supreme Judicial Court ruled Thursday in a case in which lawyers for a fifth-grader argued that her rights were violated when she was required to use a staff bathroom instead of the girls' restroom.

Nicole Maines' family and the Maine Human Rights Commission sued in 2009. Maines is a biological male who from an early age identified as a girl.

Comments

[Jerry on the boat]

So how does this work, I doubt they can just go around and ask people if they are transgendered and in the right bathroom...because that would be akin to racial profiling.

[Seamus]

Inasmuch as progressive thought insists that race, even more than gender, is merely a social construct, I think this means that people who were "assigned" to the white race at birth should start claiming that they identify as African American and should therefore be entitled to the all the concomitant racial preferences.