CO School Suspends Trans Student For Using The Correct Bathroom
Dionne Malikowski knows that when nature calls it frikkin’ hollers. That’s why the Fort Collins, Colorado student ignored her high school faculty’s repeated demands for her to use the teacher bathrooms instead of the student women’s bathroom because “There’s not staff bathrooms all over the school, [and] when you really got to pee, you got to pee.” Now the school has suspended her for using the correct bathroom. But the issue
The school district and state association of school boards both says there’s no consistent policy on how to handle “this emerging legal issue,” but if Malikowski sues they’ll probably come up with one lightning quick. After all, it’s not advanced chemistry—just allow trans students to pee in their preferred bathroom. If anything, that’s elementary civics.
Until then, the schools get a B minus for effort.
@billy: I gave them a B minus because they didn’t harass these students for their physical appearance and at least tried to make some accommodations for them as opposed to just kicking them out or forcing them into the wrong restrooms. Perhaps a C minus would have been more fitting.
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a “b minus” for isolating a couple of pupils and suspending one for using the restroom? the only positive I see in the story is the lack of mention of physical attacks or bullying against these students by other students. that part is kind of amazing, b/c i’ve seen too many of those stories.