Colorado school bans 6-year-old transgender child from girls’ bathroom

Salon writes, First-grader Coy Mathis has been banned from using the girls' bathroom at her Fountain, Colorado elementary school because she is transgender. Mathis had been using the girls' facilities until December 2012, when school administrators informed her parents that she would now have to use the boys’ bathroom, a staff bathroom or the nurse’s bathroom instead. Mathis' passport and state-issued identification recognize her as female. According to her parents, their daughter has been expressing her gender identity as female since she was 18 months old, and living openly as a girl since age four.…

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