Colorado school bars transgendered 1st-grader from using girls' restroom

By Edd Payne, CNN

A first grader by the name of Coy Mathis who is said to be transgendered, was told by the school district that she could no longer use the girls restroom. Coy was born with sex male organs but she calls herself a female. She dresses as a girl and all of her important information including her passport and her state identification says she's a girl. Coy's mother and father said that they were shocked at the news

"We were very confused because everything was going so well, and they had been so accepting, and all of a sudden it changed and it was very confusing and very upsetting because we knew that, by doing that, she was going to go back to being unhappy," Mrs. Mathis told CNN. "It was going to set her up for a lot of bad things."

Mrs. Mathis was scared that people would start picking with her son/daughter, she took her/him out of school during the winter break. The attorney Michael Silverman from "the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund" is representing Mathis.

 "For many transgender people, discrimination is a daily part of life. Unfortunately for Coy, it has started very early," Silverman said. "The world is going to be looking at the school, which can send a message to the world and teach tolerance, fair play and equal rights."

Mrs. Mathis said that she had got a call out of the clear blue and a letter saying that as Coy grows, his body is going to grow, and as his body starts to develop is going to make people uncomfortable and make the girls uncomfortable that he's using the restroom with. They are now filing a Civil Rights Complaint.

I think that it's so disturbing and so not normal for a first-grader to believe that he is a girl. The parents are allowing it and it's not cool. That's disrespectful, and I think that the reason for this boy to believe he's a girl has something to do with his parents. Coy i was born as a boy, and he should stay as a boy until he's old enough to understand what being transgendered and gay is. Right now, i don't believe that he knows what it is. I really think that the reason for him being a girl is because of family members, peers, or his parents. I definitely agree with the school district, he is a BOY, he was born with MALE ORGANS, and he should used the restroom with the rest of the BOYS.

  
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