The Missouri Supreme Court will soon decide if a Missouri school district’s denial for a transgender student to use multi-stall bathrooms and locker rooms is a form of sex discrimination.
The impending ruling in the $4 million discrimination case will set a precedent for transgender students’ rights in the state and will decide if the state’s human rights act protects a person’s legal sex.
Missouri does not currently have a statewide ban on transgender people’s use of bathrooms or facilities. Now, the state justices could decide if the Missouri Human Rights Act protects transgender people’s access to bathrooms and other public facilities.
The case was originally brought by a former student in the Blue Springs School District in 2015. The student, referred to in court documents as R.M.A., was barred from boy’s bathrooms and locker rooms at his high school.
If this state’s highest court rules in favor of the former student, he could be awarded the $4 million a previous jury awarded him. If the state rules with the school district, it could open the door for more school districts in the state to limit transgender students’ rights in schools.
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