Others are more sympathetic to the girls’ concerns. One way to look at this is that these girls are simply being transphobic and their concerns must yield to the rights of transgendered students. Other students allege that they avoid using the bathrooms altogether. According to a decision issued last week by Federal Judge Jorge Alonso, the plaintiffs allege that, “A female student (who is not a plaintiff but who had been sexually assaulted previously) was exposed to Student A’s penis.” The plaintiffs also allege that another female student “wears soiled, sweaty gym clothes under her school clothes for the rest of the school day” in order to avoid having to change her clothes in the locker room. However, as the Illinois case shows, allowing anatomically male students to use girl’s locker rooms and bathrooms can cause significant problems as well.
