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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I wonder what this person’s fellow graduates have to say about the issue. If this person’s wishes should be accepted, so should theirs. Being that this is Mississippi, I don’t see much risk in this strategy, and it would certainly take some heat off of the school board.
No one is transgender. He is not being forced to miss HIS graduation because of HIS sex.
The kid is obviously being used by adults to promote their agenda.
Would they give a diploma to a student who failed any one of their science requirements such as Biology?
Glad to be of service!
I’m sure it’s temporary
Why didn’t it just attend graduation as a cross-dressing transgender? Oh, the whole point of trannyism is to get attention and be a victim. Because if you aren’t a victim in America, what is the point in living?...
It was a boy wanting to dress like a girl. The reason it is bad for society and people in general is, tolerating this madness leads to more of it.
Nobody’s going to see what they are wearing under the cap & gown anyway. So they’re really raising a stink over nothing.
How many members of the family see something like this, then have the courage to point out the idiocy of the boy pretending to be a girl.
So, a boy is told to dress like a boy, OMG OMG what is the world coming to!
what ever happened to wearing a gown and ‘mortar board’?
Some of us have good memories of graduation from high school. We waited our turn to have us rise from our row of seats to go behind the curtain on stage, and come out as our name was called.
Just before my name was called, the pretty and popular girl behind me grabbed me and gave me a passionate kiss. Needless to say, I had the biggest smile as I received my diploma. I never told my girlfriend in the audience what happened, some things are better not mentioned. Those were the days when boys were boys and girls were girls and it was safe to kiss.
“OMG did you notice the fingernails in the pic!!! JEEZE!!”
raptor claws
Don't get it messed up, whenever the news liars like ABC say "transgender girl" they mean "boy" in reality.
It's a boy (a f@ggot boy) pretending *HE* is a "girl."
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