WAUKESHA COUNTY, Wisconsin (LifeSiteNews) – Judge Lynn Adelman in the Eastern District of Wisconsin has issued a temporary restraining order forcing Mukwonago Area School District to allow a male student into girls’ restrooms.
The Daily Wire reports that the case concerns an 11-year-old boy who “identifies” as a girl, has been using girls’ restrooms since third grade, and is going into sixth grade this fall. Last month, however, the school board unanimously adopted a “Student Privacy in Restrooms and Locker Rooms” policy that generally requires students to use the facilities that match their biology (with exceptions determined on a case-by-case basis).
While attending summer school, the boy was told he had to use the boys’ restrooms or an alternate gender-neutral bathroom. His mother sued, claiming her son is the victim of “targeting,” “ongoing discrimination,” and “consistent invasions of [his] privacy.” Adelman has agreed to temporarily block the school district from enforcing its policy.
Th “plaintiff will suffer significant irreparable harm without a temporary restraining order,” the judge claimed, Newsweek reports. “Defendants have begun enforcing the policy against plaintiff and are currently causing her to experience emotional and mental harms.”
“The District will continue to defend Policy 5514 in the interest of protecting the safety, privacy, and wellness of all students,” the school district responded in a statement. “We will also continue to keep the community informed as this case proceeds through the litigation process.”
Conservatives warn that forcing females (and especially children and teens) to share intimate facilities such as bathrooms, showers, or changing areas with members of the opposite sex violates their privacy rights, subjects them to needless emotional stress, and gives potential male predators a viable pretext to enter female bathrooms or lockers by simply claiming transgender status.
By contrast, the minority of students suffering gender dysphoria can be accommodated by being allowed to use teachers-only or single-occupancy unisex facilities, and in fact evidence shows that reinforcement of a child’s gender confusion carries far greater mental and emotional harms than that of being denied accommodation.
The problem was put on full display in Virginia last year, where a grand jury returned charges against fired ex-Loudoun County Public Schools superintendent Scott Ziegler for allegedly covering up the rape of a female student by a “transgender” classmate in a girls’ bathroom due to its damaging implications for the LGBT movement.