An Edmond Public Schools parent filed a lawsuit against the district, claiming her 15-year-old daughter was attacked and “severely beaten” by a 17-year-old transgender student in the girl’s bathroom.
The alleged incident took place at Edmond Memorial High School on October 26, 2022.
According to the lawsuit, the district knew the student, who is a biological male but identifies as female, used the bathroom assigned to girls.
The lawsuit, filed on May 25 in Oklahoma County, also cites an Oklahoma law that requires public school students to use restrooms that match the sex listed on their birth certificates.
Edmond Public Schools Superintendent Angela Grunewald addressed the issue in a YouTube video posted shortly after the alleged incident.
“You may ask yourself how can that happen?” Grunewald said. “It’s hard to explain, but if a parent comes in and enrolls their child as a certain gender, and when you look at that child by all social norms they look and present themselves as that gender, it’s not something that you would question. Also in high school, birth certificates are not required to start school. So there was no birth certificate in the (student’s) file at the time to verify one way or another.”
Grunweld also said the transgender student was no longer enrolled at the school.
“We had two policies broken at this time,” Grunewald said. “One, we have a policy against fighting. And we have a policy that our school board enacted in August of this school year that says all students must go to the bathroom of their birth gender, and both of those policies were broken. And both of them have consequences. I can tell you consequences were given for both violations.”
The district didn’t specify what those consequences were.
The parent is seeking $75,000 in damages.
BANKRUPT THEM.
75 MILLION, not THOUSAND
SAD THAT SCHOOL CAN NOT FOLLOW THE RULES AND MAKE SURE KIDS FOLLOW THE RULES. THAT KID NEEDS TO BE EXPELED FOR A YEAR
Not for a year, forever. it can get it’s schooling in jail.
Wait until the rapes start happening. In high school, boys looking like girls, showering with the girls. What could go wrong.
already happened… a girl was raped in the girls bathroom by a male wearing a skirt… in Louden County Virginia… TWICE!
That 17 year old he/him should be chargesd with sexual assault and rape and go to jail and his parents are just as culpable as he is and be sued in a civil suit this has got to stop these trans gender boys think they have a right to assault and hurt people they DON’T have the right this is the problem and these school boards are responsible Biological sex at birth is the restroom these schools use! These assaults are getting more common place is it going to be all biological girls and women carry protection before entering a Girls/Women’s restrooms now! To all you dads out their start training your daughters how to use protection so they don’t become another covered up assault victim by these leftist school boards our daughters and granddaughters are in DANGER by these deviants predators!
Ive hated Lawsuits for the past 30 years. But 75 is NOT enough. George Floyds’ family got 27Million and he was a complete career criminal and the family is better off w/o him, financially. This girl was brutally attacked and it doesn’t seem as if small settlements get the message across. IF Schools know that for 75K they can just keep things moving – they’ll risk the students. It has to HURT and really STING. I realize that the taxpayers pay it, but personally I live in a County in FL with 120,000 residents – I think less than $1 per person is not acceptable. These Schools won’t take it serious – they were willing to send parents as Domestic Terrorist – to jail; they did imprison one Father. The Trans kids are to use the Principals Office, the Teachers Lounge and a list of other non-public restrooms. We have more predators than we have legit Trans people.