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Civil Rights Complaint Filed After Illinois School Reportedly Forced Girls To Change In Front Of Trans-Identified Male Student
Reduxx ^ | March 15, 2025 | staff

Posted on 03/17/2025 2:06:05 PM PDT by Morgana

A middle school in Illinois reportedly forced a class of 13-year-old girls to change in front of a trans-identified male student in the school locker rooms after a Physical Education class, according to the mother of one of the girls involved.

Speaking during a meeting of the Deerfield School District 109 School Board on Thursday, Nicole Georgas revealed that on February 5, her daughter came home “frightened” and “upset” after finding a male student in the girls’ bathroom at school. Concerned, Georgas contacted the administration, and was told that under direction from their legal counsel, that if the student identifies as female, they are free to use any of the sex-segregated facilities as they so choose.

Only a few days later, “the situation went from bad to worse,” as according to Georgas, the male student was then present in the girls’ locker rooms for their Physical Education (PE) class. The girls, unwilling to have their privacy violated even further, collectively refused to undress in front of him. The following day, Assistant Principal Cathy Van Treese hauled the girls into her office and questioned them, before escorting them to their locker room and forcing them to change into their uniforms with the boy present. Van Treese was accompanied by Assistant Superintendent Joanna Ford and Director for Student Services Ginger Logemann. The monitoring to ensure compliance allegedly happened “all week,” Georgas explained to the district.

“My daughter refused to take part in having her privacy violated. How dare they. She ran out and called me for help,” she added. The solution presented by the school was for Georgas’s daughter to simply swap into a new PE class, which was flatly refused.

Under Illinois state law, the “rights” of trans-identified individuals, especially students, to go into whatever facilities they please, are firmly protected. According to the state’s Department of Human Rights, “the discomfort or privacy concerns of other students, teachers, or parents are not valid reasons to deny or limit the full and equal use of facilities based on a student’s gender-related identity. Instead, any student, teacher or other individual seeking more privacy should be accommodated by providing that individual a more private option upon their request, if possible.”

However, since President Trump’s return to office, the federal government has been empowered to “take all appropriate action to affirmatively protect all-female athletic opportunities and all-female locker rooms and thereby provide the equal opportunity guaranteed by Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972,” with the President declaring as he signed the executive order coincidentally also on February 5t, that “if you let men… invade your locker rooms, you will be investigated for violations of Title IX and risk your federal funding.”

As such, Georgas revealed that she had filed a civil rights complaint with the Department of Justice that has now been referred to the Department of Education, along with a federal complaint directly to the district in order to protect her daughter and other students. At the time of the executive order, the school district declared that they were “committed to providing a safe, inclusive, and high-quality education for all students.”

“The girls just want their privacy and they want their locker room back. There are gender neutral options,” Georgas continued. “This is my daughter’s story and the story of many other young girls who have been forced at a difficult age to do something they know and most adults know is wrong… Allowing biological males to access girl’s locker rooms sets a dangerous precedent that erodes the very foundation of female privacy and safety. By making this decision, the school board is not only disregarding the concerns of young female students, but also establishing a legal and policy framework that will make it increasingly difficult to protect the integrity of female-only spaces in the future.”

Following her speech, Georgas was booed by a number of trans activists, who accused her of being “obsessed with children’s genitals.” No other speaker at the meeting was in support of Georgas, and instead was filled with various loud accusations of bigotry, in some cases directly pointed at her.

One speaker Charlie Friedman, who serves as a director for the Trans Upfront organization, accused Georgas of “bullying” trans-identified children just for being concerned about her daughter. Another argued it was a “deliberate misrepresentation” to claim that girls were forced to change in front of a boy, because “who they’re talking about is a girl, a transgender girl,” comparing their concerns to racism, while a third suggested the school would have to perform “genital checks” on students, because “a lot of transgender people pass.”

The final speaker, Tina Nelson, who wore a shirt reading “Protect Trans Kids” alongside a knife, directly confronted Georgas, staring her down and accusing her of using a “white supremacist religion to push the agenda of their cis white husbands… targeting a middle school student because of your white God.”


TOPICS: Education
KEYWORDS: arth; education; illinois
Parents tell your daughters to walk out of the locker room and not change for gym until that BOY leaves. Tell them you will stand behind them.

Be calling your lawyer on the way down to the schoolhouse to get your daughter.

Don't make her get undressed in front of a BOY.

1 posted on 03/17/2025 2:06:06 PM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

The fact that public institutions are promoting this demonstrates how propagandized Americans have become, how government schools have replaced responsible parenting, and how woke politics promoted by governments has destroyed common sense.


2 posted on 03/17/2025 2:13:30 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Morgana

You’re right. All it will take is for parents and students to refuse to accept any trans-nonsense. They can cite Trump’s orders now in addition to common sense. If that means they forfeit games, so be it. If it means they are punished by school authorites, so be it. If parents and students cave, the woke trannie minority wins. If they simply say “NO absolutely not” and stand firm, they will prevail in the end.


3 posted on 03/17/2025 2:15:22 PM PDT by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back!)
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To: Morgana

The young men need to stand up and allow the girls to use the boys locker room while guarding the door to prevent anyone other than a REAL female from entering.


4 posted on 03/17/2025 2:17:31 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Time to dump out the Treasury drawer and throw out all the junk that is wasting our money.)
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To: Morgana

It’s an odd thing. The people who are always talking about “Our Democracy” can look at a situation in which, perhaps, 30 girls are unhappy and feel oppressed, and 1 trans freak is smiling and happy, and The Powers That Be will declare that the minority of 1 rules and gets what they want, and the majority of 30 are totally out of luck. They have no power. Who cares what they think?


5 posted on 03/17/2025 2:19:45 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: Morgana

Pull your kids out of these schools and Home School.

That will change the minds of the school board.

Fewer enrolled students means less dollars from the state and federal governments.

Can’t run your LBGT programs without dollars.


6 posted on 03/17/2025 2:19:45 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Morgana

These teachers and administrators must be indicted, convicted and imprisoned for lewd and lascivious behavior against minors. No excuse.


7 posted on 03/17/2025 2:22:33 PM PDT by LouAvul (1 John 2:22: He that denies that Jesus is the Christ is a liar and antichrist. )
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To: Morgana
"...Only a few days later, “the situation went from bad to worse,” as according to Georgas, the male student was then present in the girls’ locker rooms for their Physical Education (PE) class. The girls, unwilling to have their privacy violated even further, collectively refused to undress in front of him. The following day, Assistant Principal Cathy Van Treese hauled the girls into her office and questioned them, before escorting them to their locker room and forcing them to change into their uniforms with the boy present. Van Treese was accompanied by Assistant Superintendent Joanna Ford and Director for Student Services Ginger Logemann. The monitoring to ensure compliance allegedly happened “all week,” Georgas explained to the district...."

Three women. I hope they get sued to kingdom come.
8 posted on 03/17/2025 2:23:57 PM PDT by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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To: LouAvul

I could not be more wholly in agreement with your post than I am.

If I had a daughter in that school...


9 posted on 03/17/2025 2:24:53 PM PDT by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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To: bigbob; metmom

These girls now how support from the highest office in the country, I suggest they take control right now. Walk out of that locker room, refuse to dress for gym and call their parents.

Parents you call your lawyer.

Trump will hear of this and have a field day with it.


10 posted on 03/17/2025 2:52:17 PM PDT by Morgana ( “Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women.” — Alice Paul 🇺🇸 🇷🇺 )
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To: LouAvul

“Contributing to the Delinquency of Minors”.

One count for each girl.


11 posted on 03/17/2025 2:52:32 PM PDT by sevlex
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To: Morgana

Disgusting.

Big money coming the parent’s way.


12 posted on 03/17/2025 2:55:28 PM PDT by Fury
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To: Morgana
What's it going to take for people to take their kids out of government run schools? ,

They're (you're) like the old guy on The Simpsons yelling at the clouds.

13 posted on 03/17/2025 2:57:41 PM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: Morgana

I suspect all this transgender normalcy is the result of making Joe sniff Biden seem normal.


14 posted on 03/17/2025 3:23:55 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Leftniks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: LouAvul

It’s not just teachers and administrators, attention should be focused on who proposed and passed these laws.

There in lies the real problem.


15 posted on 03/17/2025 3:25:58 PM PDT by sjmjax
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To: PGR88; All

-fJRoberts-


16 posted on 03/17/2025 4:12:52 PM PDT by A strike ("We'd like to know a little bit about you for our files ..)
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To: Morgana

Where are the fathers of these girls. As a father of three girls I would get in touch with the other fathers of the girls and.....well, you know.


17 posted on 03/17/2025 6:09:47 PM PDT by IAGeezer912 (One out of every 20 people on the face of the earth are Americans. We have won life's lottery.)
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To: Morgana

The school’s proposed solution (that the girl change PE classes) is inadequate because what if one the boys there decides to identify as a girl too? The obvious solution is to separate locker rooms by biological sex, not this gender identity nonsense.

And shame on those who called a young girl a bigot for not wanting to undress in front of boys!


18 posted on 03/17/2025 6:23:32 PM PDT by FormerFRLurker ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities"-Voltaire)
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To: IAGeezer912

Exactly.

If this had happened to me and my sisters, my dad and my brothers would administer several well deserved beatings.


19 posted on 03/18/2025 12:09:34 AM PDT by Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi ( Gen. 12:3: a warning to all antisemites)
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