Meeting On Transgender Students Locker Room Access is This Week

PALATINE, IL — The Palatine-Schaumburg High School District 211 board of education will meet next week to discuss allowing transgender students to change with other students in locker rooms at the district's five high schools, the Daily Herald is reporting. Currently, transgender students must change in privacy stalls in locker rooms of the gender they identify with.

A board meeting where the matter will be discussed will start at 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 19, at Palatine High School, 1111 N. Rohlwing Road in Palatine. A large turnout is expected, Superintendent Dan Cates told the Daily Herald.

The news of the board discussion came after a judge denied a motion Thursday filed by District 211 to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Nova Maday, a former transgender student who was born male but identifies as a female and has been fighting since 2017 to allow the district's transgender students full access to its locker rooms, according to the newspaper. Cates said the denial has nothing to do with next week's discussion, which has been in the works for awhile.

The earliest the District 211 school board could approve the new locker room rules would be during an Oct. 17 meeting.

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