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Missouri Supreme Court rules in favor of transgender student’s bathroom case
WGNO
February 28, 2019

LEE'S SUMMIT, Mo. - LGBTQ advocates are celebrating a Missouri Supreme Court decision, calling it a victory for transgender rights.

Ten months after it first went before the court, judges ruled Tuesday that lawsuits that claim discrimination based on sex and sex stereotypes are legally viable. There was one dissenting opinion.

RJ Appleberry's family filed a lawsuit against the Blue Springs School District in 2014, claiming it discriminated based on sex. RJ is transgender; he transitioned from female to male when he was nine years old.

The lawsuit claims the board and district's refusal to let Appleberry use the boy's bathroom and locker room as a student was sex discrimination.
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The decision doesn't mean the Blue Springs School District has to change its current policy, but now the original lawsuit can start again. Representatives for the district did not initially respond to a request for comment.

The Missouri Supreme Court sent the back to the lower and told them to hold the trial which was refused to be heard by the lower court, the lower court said that trans was not covered by state law. However, the Supreme Court ruled that we are covered under current state law.

Attorneys for Appleberry said this is the first case to go before the Missouri Supreme Court that clarifies the language in the Missouri Human Rights Act.

"As it covers sex discrimination, that does include the possibility for the person to prove that they were discriminated against based on their sex because of gender stereotyping and gender stereotypes," attorney Madeline Johnson said, "which is what we alleged in the case RMA vs Blue Springs R-4 School District."

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Another victory, this time from New Jersey.

Sussex-Wantage schools' transgender policy clears hurdle
New Jersey Herald
By Eric Obernauer
March 1, 2019

The Sussex-Wantage Regional Board of Education has taken a first step toward approving a revised policy on transgender students, but will undertake further review of the proposed changes before deciding whether to adopt them.

The board, after nearly 90 minutes of deliberation behind closed doors, voted 5-2 with one abstention Wednesday to approve proposed policy revisions that would supersede the current policy, adopted in 2015, under which confirmation of a student's asserted gender identity must be given in the form of a letter from a child's parent to the school superintendent.

"We didn't create this law," board President Nicholas D'Agostino said, referring to the July 2017 state law on which the proposed policy change is based. "Our personal feelings aside, we're here to act in accordance with and follow the law, and that's what we're voting on."
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The proposed policy revisions, which are based on guidelines handed down recently by the state Department of Education, not only would enhance the right of transgender students to dress, participate in sports and other school activities, and use locker and bathroom facilities in accordance with their expressed gender identity, but would also remove the requirement that a child's parents be notified and would even forbid it in some cases.

The revised policy also would require that transgender students be addressed by teachers and peers according to their chosen name and gender identity, and have report cards and other school documentation prepared according to a student's chosen name and identity as well, regardless of whether parental consent was given.

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A third victory!

In Washington they passed an anti-bullying bill…

State Senate Approves School Transgender Anti-Bullying Bill
The Washington state Senate has passed an anti-bullying measure that would require policies intended to protect transgender students in public schools.
U.S. News and World Report
February 28, 2019

OLYMPIA, WASH. (AP) — The Washington state Senate has passed an anti-bullying measure that would require policies intended to protect transgender students in public schools.

The Spokane Spokesman-Review reported on Wednesday that Democrats who consider the legislation a basic school safety measure prevailed in a party-line vote over Republicans who argue the bill takes authority away from local school districts.

The bill has moved to the state House for consideration.

In their hatred of anything LGBTQ+ the Republicans voted against it.

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A fourth victory!

This one puts a bastard in jail.

Man pleads guilty to 2017 murder of OKC transgender woman
News OK
By Nuria Martinez-Keel
March 1, 2019

A Norman man has pleaded guilty to killing a transgender woman in Oklahoma City.

Brandon Michael Tyson, 32, pleaded guilty last week to shooting Brooklyn BreYanna Stevenson, 31, at the Oxford Inn, 5301 N Lincoln Blvd. He entered a blind plea to first-degree murder, allowing Judge Amy Palumbo to decide his sentence at his next hearing on April 24.

His first-degree murder conviction will carry the minimum of a life sentence with the possibility of parole. At maximum, he could be sentenced to life without the possibility of parole.