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\nFour Lexington families have filed a lawsuit against the Fayette County School Board and Attorney General Daniel Cameron over Senate Bill 150.<\/p>\n
\nFour Lexington families have filed a lawsuit against the Fayette County School Board and Attorney General Daniel Cameron over Senate Bill 150.<\/p>\n
The lawsuit, filed Friday in Fayette Circuit Court, alleges the new law around bathroom access, pronoun use, and classroom speech violates students\u2019 rights.<\/p>\n
The plaintiffs are the Doe, Noe, Poe and Roe families who have been pseudonymously named to protect their identities.<\/p>\n
Their children, who are 10 to 17, are transgender and non-binary students who attend various schools in Fayette County.<\/p>\n
The bill bans gender affirming care for anyone under 18; bans schools from teaching anything about gender expression, sexual orientation or gender identity and also allows teachers to ignore a student\u2019s preferred pronouns.<\/p>\n
The families cite school personnel intentionally misgendering and outing students. The lawsuit states a moment when the parent of \u201cChild Doe\u201d spoke with an elementary school office employee who refused to use \u201cChild Doe\u2019s\u201d preferred non-binary name and non-binary pronouns.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis employee\u2019s stated reason for this refusal was because the employee knew of Child Doe\u2019s binary name typically associated with females as shown on Child Doe\u2019s birth certificate provided to the school and\/or maintained in the FCPS computer system. This employee is not a teacher and thus, had no instructional reason to know of Child Doe\u2019s birth certificate information except to intrude upon the Doe family\u2019s privacy,\u201d the lawsuit read.<\/p>\n
The lawsuit also stated the parents filed to have \u201cChild Doe\u2019s\u201d legally changed to a non-binary name so the student\u2019s preferred non-binary name and preferred gender pronouns would be used while they were at school.<\/p>\n
The family of \u201cChild Roe\u201d said the student has been experiencing privacy issues with restroom usage. The 10-year-old, who is transgender, has been attending Fayette County Public Schools for three years.<\/p>\n
On August 17, \u201cChild Roe\u201d told her parents that she was \u201crefused admittance to the girls\u2019 restroom\u201d during a break in the school day when all kids were permitted to use the restroom. Instead, she alleges that school personnel sent her to a \u201cspecial\u201d restroom on the other side of the school and not the closest one to her classroom her female friends used during breaks.<\/p>\n
Attorneys argue that had she been able use that bathroom previously without incident and traveling further away has caused her to miss more class time.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe school restrooms that Child Roe and her friends have always used, have private stalls for each girl to use, but despite this fact, Child Roe was still refused and so humiliated and embarrassed by being segregated from the other girls during the first school-day\u2019s restroom break that Child Roe now reports to her parents that she will not use the restroom at school at all and will instead \u201chold it\u201d until she gets home,\u201d the lawsuit read.<\/p>\n
The lawsuit also challenges a portion of the law requiring school districts to eliminate instruction on human sexuality of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in first through fifth grade or ban instruction on studying sexual orientation or gender identity.<\/p>\n
Attorneys believe this violates and harms the educational rights of students. <\/p>\n
It is the first challenge to the education provisions of Senate Bill 150.<\/p>\n
Another lawsuit is challenging the section of the bill that bans gender affirming care.
\nSource: WHAS11<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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