Transphobic cisgender students allowed to sue Virginia schools

A Virginia court has ruled that a cisgender student can sue her school district for forcing her to share bathrooms with transgender girls.

A county judge said the student, whose name has not been released, can bring her case forward, the conservative Washington Examiner reported. America First Legal has funded the student’s case.

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Fairfax County, the state’s largest school district, was one of several districts that last year rejected Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s directive to discriminate against transgender students, including by requiring them to use restroom facilities that match their gender identity rather than the sex they were assigned at birth.

Fairfax County Schools Superintendent Michelle Reid told a local Fox affiliate in August that schools still require transgender students to be addressed by preferred pronouns and to have access to bathrooms and activities that match their gender identity.

But the court’s ruling means a Fairfax student can now sue school officials over that policy. The legal complaint alleges the student is being forced to violate deeply held personal beliefs.

“The applicant is a practicing Catholic who believes that God created each person as male or female, that the complementary genders reflect the image of God, that gender cannot be changed, and that rejecting one’s biological sex is a rejection of the image of God in that person,” the lawsuit states.

“She believes that referring to another person using pronouns that do not match that person’s biological sex is harmful to that person because it is false and harmful to her because it forces her to lie by denying her religious beliefs and scientific evidence.”

Transgenders are the gender they say they are.

The lawsuit also alleges that being forced to share a restroom with a person assigned male at birth is a violation of her privacy as a woman.