Case 3:17-cv-00739-TJC-JBT Document 192 Filed 07/26/18 Page 26 of 70 PageID 10704
mother met with various school and District personnel, sent them letters and emails, and pursued a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights; by the end of his sophomore year when those efforts had not resulted in any change to the school bathroom policy, Adams, through his mother, filed this lawsuit. Doc. 160-1 at Tr. 254–60.
For some of Adams’ classes during his junior year, the gender-neutral bathrooms were considerably further away than the boys’ restrooms.[1] Id. at Tr. 117, 119, 122–24, 176–79. Adams monitors his fluid intake to minimize his need to use the restroom and he now uses the school bathroom only once or twice a day.[2] Id. at Tr. 118–19, 172. Adams thinks ahead about where his classes are and which bathrooms he can access, worrying he will miss valuable class time if a gender-neutral bathroom is not nearby.[3] Id. at Tr. 118–19. Adams’ has not registered for any physical
- ↑ Nease has increased the number of gender-neutral single-stall restrooms available for student use since Adams started as a student there. Originally, only one was available, in the school office. By the time Adams finished his junior year in the spring of 2018, eleven were available. Doc. 160-1 at Tr. 120; Doc. 162 at Tr. 133–34.
- ↑ Pediatric endocrinologist Dr. Adkins testified that limiting fluid intake to avoid bathroom use increases the risk of urinary tract infections and dehydration (Doc. 166, Ct. Ex. 2 at Tr. 32–33), but Adams has never complained to school officials about those issues (Doc. 160-1 at Tr. 179), and there is no evidence in the record of him having suffered from those problems.
- ↑ Having visited the Nease campus and toured the routes Adams took from his classes to the nearest gender-neutral bathroom, the Court did not find those distances to be so far as to disrupt Adams’ class schedule.
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