UPDATE: On May 24th, three judges on the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia heard oral arguments over the lawsuit, Doe v. Boyertown Area School District. Judges Theodore McKee, Patty Shwartz, and Richard Lowell Nygaard ruled 3-0 against student privacy....
Just one week after Jeff Sessions was confirmed as Attorney General, the Department of Justice signaled that it is ending efforts to force school districts to allow boys into girls facilities as a condition of receiving federal funding. Last year, the Department of...
NFA joined an Amicus Brief along with 8,900+ students, parents and concerned citizens to support student privacy in locker rooms and restrooms. Alliance Defending Freedom filed an amicus brief, or “friend of the court” brief on behalf of parents and students in all 50...
The Lincoln Journal Star recently published an article highlighting a transgender student at a Lincoln High School,“For Transgender Students, Acceptance Goes Beyond a Bathroom Stall.” One thing this article articulates well is that bathrooms aren’t really what this...
A crucial component surrounding recent discussions on gender identity, gender expression and student access to restrooms and locker rooms has been missed: the constitutional right to bodily privacy. Courts have consistently ruled that people have a reasonable...
One afternoon Kate took her children to their local gym’s swimming pool. To her great surprise she encountered a man in the women’s locker room and changing area. She was even more surprised by what happened next. When she reported the incident to gym management, she...
