Major Settlement To Be Announced In Discrimination Lawsuit Against Anoka-Hennepin School District

CBS Minnesota

March 23, 2021

The American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota and the nonprofit Gender Justice are expected to announce a major settlement early Tuesday afternoon in a lawsuit filed against Anoka-Hennepin School District based on its alleged mistreatment of a transgender student.

Gender Justice, the ACLU-MN and Stinson LLP will be holding the virtual press conference at 12:30 p.m. where they will announce the settlement on behalf of their client. Several important reforms from the school district “in response to its discrimination against” their client will also be announced, according to a representative from St. Paul-based Gender Justice.

The complaint was filed in February of 2019. According to ACLU-MN staff attorney David McKinney, the teen started at Coon Rapids High School in 2015. McKinney said after joining the boys’ swim team and using the boys’ locker room for months, the school board stepped in in February of 2016 and told the student he would be disciplined if he continued to use the locker room.

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