TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Kate Prince on Aug 4, 2022

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More than one month after its first lawsuit was dismissed, national LGBT organization the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) is taking the state back to court over its trans bathroom law, WPLN reports. HRC is suing on behalf of a Williamson County family and their 8-year-old child who, according to the Associated Press, was assigned male at birth but identifies as female. State law prohibits the student, identified as D.H., from using the girls' bathroom at school. The school allows D.H. to use one of four single-occupancy restrooms, which “reinforce the differential treatment” of D.H., violating her constitutional rights, the suit claims. HRC originally filed suit earlier this year on behalf of two Wilson County families with transgender children, but both families moved out of state before the lawsuit made its way through the court. The suit seeks an injunction against the bathroom law.

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More than one month after its first lawsuit was dismissed, national LGBT organization the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) is taking the state back to court over its trans bathroom law, WPLN reports. HRC is suing on behalf of a Williamson County family and their 8-year-old child who, according to the Associated Press, was assigned male at birth but identifies as female. State law prohibits the student, identified as D.H., from using the girls' bathroom at school. The school allows D.H. to use one of four single-occupancy restrooms, which “reinforce the differential treatment” of D.H., violating her constitutional rights, the suit claims. HRC originally filed suit earlier this year on behalf of two Wilson County families with transgender children, but both families moved out of state before the lawsuit made its way through the court. The suit seeks an injunction against the bathroom law.