Posted on 05/24/2023 5:46:53 AM PDT by Morgana
JACKSON, Miss. -- A transgender girl in Mississippi is not participating in her high school graduation ceremony because school officials told her to dress like a boy and a federal judge did not block the officials' decision, an attorney for the girl's family said Saturday.
Linda Morris, staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union's Women’s Rights Project, said the ruling handed down late Friday by U.S. District Judge Taylor McNeel in Gulfport, Mississippi, “is as disappointing as it is absurd.”
“Our client is being shamed and humiliated for explicitly discriminatory reasons, and her family is being denied a once-in-a-lifetime milestone in their daughter’s life,” Morris said. "No one should be forced to miss their graduation because of their gender.”
The ACLU confirmed that the 17-year-old girl — listed in court papers only by her initials L.B. — would skip the Saturday ceremony for Harrison Central High School in Gulfport, about 160 miles (260 kilometers) south of Jackson.
The student “has met the qualifications to receive a diploma," according to Wynn Clark, attorney for the Harrison County School District.
The ACLU sued the district Thursday on behalf of the student and her parents after Harrison Central principal Kelly Fuller and school district superintendent Mitchell King told L.B. that she must follow the boys' clothing rules. Graduating boys are expected to wear white shirts and black slacks, while girls are expected to wear white dresses.
L.B. had selected a dress to wear with her cap and gown. The lawsuit said L.B. had worn dresses to classes and extracurricular events throughout high school, including to a prom last year, and she should not face discriminatory treatment during graduation.
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“. but if the school system has allowed such dress code violations during school, then they will be found to be accountable in damages that will be coming...”
That is starting to change! Florida...Montana...I’m sure others will follow.
“Linda Morris, staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union’s Women’s Rights Project…”
He’s not a woman.
Period.
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The family is not missing anything
He can dress like the boy he is for the graduation and afterwards play dress~Up in Mommy’s clothes for weird photos with his weird relatives
Waste of time and money. Just mail the damn diploma.
I had to sit in a hot gymnasium while 645 names were called......sheesh!
I can hardly hold back the tears.
NO SUCH THING AS ‘TRANS GENDERED”!. Cut off whatever, sew on whatever it still is either XX or XY.
So a boy is told to dress like a boy?
The horror!
That said, as far as I am concerned, the dude can dress however he wants to. But he’s still a dude.
What a drama Queen. Hey grifters, High School is over, hoped you learned something. Move along now, no loitering , faggot.
true...
all true. announce his name and he him pronouns and let him walk across the stage. don’t risk the taxpayers money, he is not worth it.
So this boy had his junk removed and then had huge breast implants—per the picture in the white dress—at 14? LB claims to have been dressing as a girl since freshman year. The mother is just as nutty as her son if she agreed to this medical malpractice!
I especially liked the 4-inch long fingernails. /s
The headline should have read: “Mississippi teen told he can’t attend graduation in drag”. That would have been more accurate.
A deranged and depraved boy ...
And the whole damn graduation becomes about one mentally ill person.
he actually could pass as a bio girl.
Umm...it’s a dude...a son, not a daughter.
To let this boy dress as a girl, in school, is to tell the rest of the kids that psychotic behavior is okay and that it should be accepted. Enough with the “It’s free country” bullshit! It’s not! And, idiocy like this further enslaves us!
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