Over 100 students left class at a Missouri high school on Monday to protest after a transgender student requested permission to use the girls' restroom
Protests at Missouri School Over Transgender Student Using Girls’ Bathroom
By Heritage Foundation Kate Scanlon——Bio and Archives--September 3, 2015
Protests erupted at a Missouri high school on Monday after a transgender student requested permission to use the girls’ restroom.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Lila Perry, a transgender senior at Hillsboro High School, asked for permission from the school to use bathrooms and locker rooms designated for female students.
“I wasn’t hurting anyone. I didn’t want to be in something gender-neutral,” Perry told the Post-Dispatch. “I am a girl. I am not going to be pushed away to another bathroom.”
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