Colorado school bans 6-year-old transgender child from girls’ bathroom
First-grader Coy Mathis has been banned from using the girls’ bathroom at her Fountain, Colorado elementary school because she is transgender. Mathis had been using the girls’ facilities until December 2012, when school administrators informed her parents that she would now have to use the boys’ bathroom, a staff bathroom or the nurse’s bathroom instead.
Mathis’ passport and state-issued identification recognize her as female. According to her parents, their daughter has been expressing her gender identity as female since she was 18 months old, and living openly as a girl since age four.
But the school doesn’t see her that way. W. Kelly Dude, an attorney for the Fountain-Fort Carson School District, said the school’s decision “took into account not only Coy but other students in the building, their parents, and the future impact a boy with male genitals using a girls’ bathroom would have as Coy grew older.” Adding, “However, I’m certain you can appreciate that as Coy grows older and his male genitals develop along with the rest of his body, at least some parents and students are likely to become uncomfortable with his continued use of the girls’ restroom.”
Expressing his identity as a female since he was 18 months old? What type of foolishness is this?