A Colorado school district is refusing to agree to mediation with the family of a transgender girl who wants to return to school.
Fountain-Fort Carson School District 8 officials are refusing to comment on a complaint filed by the New York-based Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund. The complaint was filed on behalf of Kathryn and Jeremy Mathis, claiming that 6-year-old Coy Mathis has been discriminated against. The district has until March 17 to respond to the commission complaint.
The child is being home-schooled this semester after been denied access to the girls' bathroom at Eagleside Elementary School.
According to the Colorado Springs Gazette (http://tinyurl.com/bbjorrg ), school district officials did not return phone calls Thursday requesting comment.
School district rejects transgender girl mediation
POSTED: 10:51 AM MST Mar 08, 2013
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