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 or harassment; protect students’ private information; allow students to be “open about their sexual orientation or transgender identity”; and permit students to “wear clothing in accordance with their consistently asserted gender identity.” For bathroom use, the best-practices policy clarified: “Transgender students will be given access to a gender-neutral restroom and will not be required to use the restroom corresponding to their biological sex.” The policy also stated the School District’s belief that no law required schools to “allow a transgender student access to the restroom corresponding to their consistently asserted transgender identity.”

Through researching the LGBTQ best-practices policy, the School District learned that other school districts—in Florida and in other states—permitted transgender students to use the restroom according to their gender identity. But the School District declined to adopt such a policy, in part because it feared any student might be able to gain access to any bathroom facility by identifying or pretending to identify as “gender-fluid.” The School District, however, had never