Transgender Locker Room Policy Eludes School District Facing Government Sanctions under Title IX

By Michelle E. Phillips, Bethany Swaton Wagner and Gregg E. Clifton, of Jackson Lewis, PC   An Illinois school district has violated anti-discrimination laws by not allowing a transgender student who identifies as female and is on her high school’s girls’ sports team to change and shower in the girls’ locker room, the United States Department of Education Office of Civil Rights (“OCR”) has held.   The OCR released its findings on November 2, 2015, after completing an exte