MINNEAPOLIS: The Minnesota Court of Appeals ruled Monday that schools must allow students to use locker rooms that are consistent with their gender identity, saying a suburban school district violated the rights of a transgender student by keeping him from using the boys’ main locker room.
The parents of the boy identified as N.H. sued the Anoka-Hennepin School District last year, claiming the district violated his rights to equal protection under the Minnesota Human Rights Act when it forced the student, who was on the boys’ swimming team, to use a segregated locker room.
The appeals court found it is unlawful to segregate a boy from his peers just because he is transgender.
N.H. identifies as male, has socially transitioned to male, and lives as male. Others also identify him as male and treat him as male. Based…