A 13-year-old transgender boy is suing Berkeley County Schools and the state for refusing to allow him to use the bathroom that aligns with the gender to which he identifies in order to comply with a new state rule. The federal lawsuit, which also names state Superintendent of Education Ellen Weaver, seeks class-action status to represent the estimated 3,000 transgender students in South Carolina schools now subject to these restrictions. "I really do fear for so many of them," said Chase Glenn, executive director of the Alliance for Full Acceptance , a Charleston-based LGBTQ advocacy group that also is a plaintiff in the lawsuit.
"They are just so vulnerable right now." Charleston transgender man leads lawsuit against state, MUSC over denial of care The lawsuit, filed Nov. 12 in Charleston, also names the S.
C. Board of Education, the state Department of Education and Berkeley County Superintendent Anthony Dixon. It was filed on behalf of the boy, who is listed as John Doe, and his parents, as well as the Alliance for Full Acceptance.
It was filed by Public Justice, a national legal advocacy group, along with other civil rights law firms. In addition to seeking to represent all trans students in South Carolina impacted by the state rule, it also seeks a temporary and permanent injunction against schools from enforcing it. Those motions are currently pending a hearing.
South Carolina is "willfully violating the law, and we think that's even more reason why the district court s.
