If you have to squat to pee, you deserve to be in the girls restroom.
Via BuzzFeed:
A transgender teenager in rural Virginia is taking his case to the U.S. Department of Justice, arguing in a complaint that the Gloucester County School Board violated his rights by approving a policy this month prohibiting students from using restrooms that do not correspond to their “biological genders.”
The complaint, sent Thursday, argues the school board ran afoul of Title IX, a 1972 law that bans gender-based discrimination, which has been interpreted recently to protect students from discrimination based on their gender identify.
“I felt like it was my moral responsibility to stand up for the rights of all transgender students, as well as my own,” the 15-year-old sophomore told BuzzFeed News.
Lawyers at the American Civil Liberties Union sent the complaint, which cites a slew of legal decisions and precedents. “Federal courts have made clear that the protections in Title IX from discrimination based on ‘sex’ include discrimination based on gender identity or transgender status,” the lawyers write.