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Edmond Schools Face Lawsuit Over State’s Transgender Restroom Law
A mother sues Edmond Schools over the state's school restroom law.
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Edmond parent files lawsuit after daughter 'severely beaten' in bathroom by trans student
An Edmond Public Schools parent filed a lawsuit against the district, claiming her 15-year-old daughter was attacked and "severely beaten" by a 17-year-old tran
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OKLAHOMA CITY (KOKH) — An Edmond Public Schools parent filed a lawsuit against the district, claiming her 15-year-old daughter was attacked and "severely beaten" by a 17-year-old transgender student in the girl's bathroom.
The alleged incident took place at Edmond Memorial High School on October 26, 2022.
According to the lawsuit, the district knew the student, who is a biological male but identifies as female, used the bathroom assigned to girls.
The lawsuit, filed on May 25 in Oklahoma County, also cites an Oklahoma law that requires public school students to use restrooms that match the sex listed on their birth certificates.
Interestingly, the School District is claiming that in fact it did not know. They are not claiming, "they identify as famale, so they are female!"
“You may ask yourself how can that happen?” Grunewald said. “It’s hard to explain, but if a parent comes in and enrolls their child as a certain gender, and when you look at that child by all social norms they look and present themselves as that gender, it’s not something that you would question. Also in high school, birth certificates are not required to start school. So there was no birth certificate in the (student's) file at the time to verify one way or another.”
Since Oklahoma has a law, and the school district has a policy that student use the bathroom matching the sex on their birth certificate, they can't use the woke defense.
This will not play well in front of a jury. That district would be better off to settle as soon as possible, and as quietly as possible. I haven't seen the assailant, but I'm guessing at seventeen that he was no more passable as female than Dylan Mulvaney, which is not at all passable. Unless the district can produce a blind counselor's clerk who processed that young man into the school the "we couldn't tell" defense is unlikely to be seen as anything but an insult to the jury's intelligence.