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 undersigned toured Nease High School with the school principal and counsel for both sides, visiting every restroom on campus. Thereafter, the parties submitted proposed findings of fact and conclusions of law and supplemental briefs addressing the School Board’s bathroom policy. Docs. 172, 173-1, 174, 175. The Court heard closing arguments on February 16, 2018. Doc. 184. While the Court has adopted portions of each party’s submission, the Court’s findings of fact and conclusions of law are its own. Several pending motions were carried with the case, and those rulings are incorporated herein.

II.Findings of Fact


 * A.Defining Transgender/Gender Identity/Sex Assigned at Birth

As explained by Dr. Diane Ehrensaft, a developmental and clinical psychologist who studies and specializes in treating transgender children and adolescents, there are a number of components that determine a person’s gender: external genitalia, internal sex organs, chromosomal sex, gonadal sex, fetal hormonal sex, hypothalamic sex, pubertal hormonal sex, neurological sex, and gender identity and role. Doc. 166,