Illinois School District Placed Male Roommate Overnight With Teen Girls, Legal Group Claims– www.dailysignal.com
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An Illinois school district allowed at least one male to share overnight accommodations with female high school students while withholding that information from parents, according to a legal group representing concerned parents.
Community High School District 128 in northern Illinois directs staff not to disclose a student’s “transgender” status, to assign overnight-trip rooms according to gender identity, and to incorporate transgender materials into curricula and libraries, according to a legal demand letter from Liberty Justice Center.
“We’re aware of several families whose daughters were directly affected by these policies, meaning not only exposure to unconstitutional curricula and ‘secret gender transition’ policies, but also being forced to share overnight accommodations with a biological male,” Kathryn Cosgrove, counsel at Liberty Justice Center, told the Daily Signal in a statement Friday.
Since the policy directs schools to assign rooms based on gender identity while restricting disclosure of a student’s transgender status, parents were not informed when the school reportedly assigned a male to room with their daughters, Liberty Justice Center claims. The district serves between 3,300 and 3,500 students at Libertyville High School and Vernon Hills High School.
The district allows for students to sleep “in a single bed,” as an exception to the standard minimum of three to a room, but the student “would incur any additional cost for this accommodation,” according to a copy of the overnight trip policy provided by Liberty Justice Center. The policy states that “students will be assigned to rooms with students of their same gender identity.”
