Lawsuit Underway for Female Student Suspended From School After ‘Misgendering’ Biological Male

After a biological male entered the girls’ locker room while they were changing, female student Blake Allen said the trans-identifying peer was “literally a dude” and was subsequently suspended and told to attend a “restorative” meeting with school staff. Allen’s father, a middle school girls’ soccer coach, was also suspended after writing on Facebook that the boy “watched my daughter and multiple other girls change in the locker room.” A lawsuit is currently underway as schools cannot prevent students from expressing particular beliefs.

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Blake Allen was suspended for two days but given the option to "[t]ake part in a restorative circle" with the school's Equality Coordinator and "at least two students who can help her understand the rights of students to access public accommodations ... in a manner consistent with their gender identity," the suit says. Allen would then be required to write a "reflective essay." If the school determined that the essay lacked "good faith," she would be required to serve an additional three days of suspension, according to the lawsuit.

Alliance Defending Freedom is representing the Allens.

"The First Amendment does not countenance this kind of government censorship, where a public school mandates that students and coaches refrain from expressing any view that offends its prescribed views, particularly on an issue as important as whether the school should permit males identifying as girls to undress, shower and change in the girls' locker room," the lawsuit says. "Travis and Blake Allen were entitled to express their views on that issue and, in expressing those views, to support them with what is a biological fact – that a biological teenage male is, indeed, a male. This case presents a textbook example of unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination."

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