Wisconsin school district can’t restrict bathrooms for transgender student, federal judge says

A federal judge has blocked a Wisconsin school district from requiring transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms that match the sex they were assigned at birth while a lawsuit plays out against the school. U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman said Thursday that the Mukwonago Area School District must allow a transgender student to use facilities that align with their gender identity, temporarily blocking a policy approved last month by the school board, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported. The order comes in a lawsuit brought anonymously by an 11-year-old transgender student and her mother. The judge ruled that the school's policy was causing emotional and mental harm to the student, who was described as a boy at birth but has identified as a girl since she was three years old. According to court documents, school officials have monitored which bathrooms the student uses and forced her to go to boys' bathrooms or gender-neutral bathrooms at Mukwonago High School, where she is enrolled in summer school classes. For more Local News from WMTV: https://www.nbc15.com/ For more YouTube Content:    / @wmtv15news