Chicago judge considers meaning of male and female
As the new school year began Monday for students in Palatine, Ill., attorneys gathered in a Chicago federal courtroom to argue whether a male student will be allowed to use the restrooms and locker rooms designated for his female classmates in Township High School District 211. The lawsuit, Students and Parents for Privacy v. U.S. Department of Education, is one of several cases across the country calling on the courts, not medical experts or scientists, to define the meaning of male and female.
Magistrate Judge Jeffrey Gilbert heard arguments from attorneys representing 51 families who filed a lawsuit in May demanding an end to the district policy that allows a boy who presents himself as a girl to use the girls’ changing facilities. The school district established the policy last year after the U.S. Department of Education Office of Civil Rights (OCR) declared the district in violation of Title...