Case 3:17-cv-00739-TJC-JBT Document 192 Filed 07/26/18 Page 66 of 70 PageID 10744
policy, practice, or custom of the St. Johns County School District that denies transgender students access to and use of restrooms that match a student’s gender identity.”[1] Doc. 175 at 50.
The evidence has established that Drew Adams is a transgender boy. Adams has undergone social, medical, and legal transitions to present himself as a boy. Adams wears his hair short; he dresses like a boy; his voice is deeper than a girl’s; his family, peers, classmates and teachers use male pronouns to refer to him; he takes hormones which suppress menstruation and make his body more masculine, including the development of facial hair and typical male muscle development; he has had a double mastectomy so his body looks more like a boy; the state of Florida has provided him with a birth certificate and driver’s license which state he is a male; and when out in public, Adams uses the men’s restroom. As a transgender boy, Adams must be permitted to use the boys’ restroom at school.
However, the Court has had no occasion in the context of this case to determine what threshold of transition, if any, is necessary for the School Board to accommodate other transgender students, nor did the parties ask the Court to do so. The Court received no evidence concerning any other transgender student. Thus, the
- ↑ While his amended complaint sought access to “multi-user facilities” (Doc. 60 at 21–22), there was no testimony or argument at trial about locker rooms or showers, and the Court’s ruling does not address access to those spaces.
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