Linda Morris, staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union’s Women’s Rights Project, said the ruling handed down late Friday by U.S. District Judge Taylor McNeel in Gulfport, Mississippi, “is as disappointing as it is absurd.”
Graduating boys are expected to wear white shirts and black slacks, while girls are expected to wear white dresses. The trans girl was told to dress like a boy.
By Timothy Gardner (Reuters) - A transgender Mississippi girl declined to participate in high school graduation on Saturday after a U.S. District Judg.
The Mississippi 17-year-old is not participating in her high school graduation ceremony because school officials told her to dress like a boy and a federal judge did not block the officials' decision.