{"id":4012,"date":"2015-09-02T19:30:13","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T13:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pahichan.com\/?p=4012"},"modified":"2015-09-02T19:30:13","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T13:45:13","slug":"missouri-teenagers-protest-a-transgender-students-use-of-the-girls-bathroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/missouri-teenagers-protest-a-transgender-students-use-of-the-girls-bathroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Missouri Teenagers Protest a Transgender Student\u2019s Use of the Girls\u2019 Bathroom"},"content":{"rendered":"

Karen Workman\/Pahichan –\u00a0<\/span>A transgender high school student in Missouri is facing backlash from her peers after requesting to use the girls\u2019 bathrooms and locker room.<\/p>\n

\"02transstudent-image-master675\"<\/a>Lila Perry, a transgender student at Hillsboro High School, talked to reporters on Monday after a protest against her use of the girls\u2019 bathrooms and locker room.<\/span> Credit<\/span>Robert Cohen\/St. Louis Post-Dispatch, via Associated Press.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

More than 100 students at Hillsboro High School, about an hour south of St Louis, walked out of class on Monday in protest.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m hoping this dies down,\u201d said Lila Perry, the 17-year-old who began identifying as a girl publicly in February. \u201cI don\u2019t want my entire senior year to be like this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ms. Perry, who began feeling \u201cmore like a girl than a boy\u201d when she was 13, said school officials gave her permission to use the girls\u2019 facilities as the new school year began.<\/p>\n

The district\u2019s superintendent, Aaron D. Cornman, issued a statement saying the district \u201caccepts all students no matter race, nationality\/ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation.\u201d<\/p>\n

The student protest came on the heels of a school board meeting on Thursday attended by so many parents it had to be moved<\/a> to a bigger location.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy goal is for the district and parents to have a policy discussion,\u201d said Derrick Good, a lawyer who has two daughters in the district and wants students to use either facilities based on their biological sex or other gender-neutral facilities.<\/p>\n

He worked with the Alliance Defending Freedom<\/a>, a Christian advocacy group, to draft a \u201cstudent physical privacy policy\u201d and submit it to the district, which has about 3,500 students.<\/p>\n

Ms. Perry previously used a unisex faculty bathroom<\/a>, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.<\/p>\n

Mr. Good said he got involved after hearing about a female student who encountered \u201can intact male\u201d in the girls\u2019 locker room.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a violation of my daughters\u2019 rights to privacy to not have a policy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The protesting students assembled outside the school for about two hours. Mr. Cornman said he did not believe any of them were penalized.<\/p>\n

Ms. Perry, who dropped out of the physical education class that prompted her use of the girls\u2019 locker room, spent the two hours in her guidance counselor\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was concerned about my own safety,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

She said she knows of other, younger transgender students in the district and wants to open a dialogue so they have a better high school experience.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt feels really awful that people are going to these extremes against me, not just in school but all over the Internet,\u201d Ms. Perry said. \u201cBut I\u2019ve also received so much support. It feels really surreal to be in the middle of all of this.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Missouri Gay-Straight Alliance Network will host a rally<\/a> supporting Ms. Perry on Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that there are a lot of folks that don\u2019t understand the difference between sex and gender and only see Lila as her sex at birth,\u201d said Morgan Keenan, the group\u2019s founding director.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not the first case to stir public debate about the matter.<\/p>\n

A 13-year-old transgender student at a junior high school in Utah was givenpermission to use the girls\u2019 bathrooms<\/a> earlier this year, prompting a parent to remove a student from the school, according to KBOI-TV.<\/p>\n

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