Human Rights Commission: School Department Discriminated Against Transgender Student

AUGUSTA (NEWS CENTER) -- The Maine Human Rights Commission took up two cases of discrimination filed on behalf of former students at Asa Adams Elementary School; one involving a transgender student and the other involving a male student.

The Commission found discrimination in the case of the transgender student, but not the in the case of the male student. The transgender student is biologically male but identifies as female. That student's family says the Orono School Department discriminated against their child when it stopped allowing the student to use the shared girl's bathroom.

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