<div><span style="font-size: xx-large; ">The Supreme Court in Maine has ruled that school officials violated state anti-discrimination law when they would not allow a transgendered fifth-grader to use the girls</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 48px; font-size: xx-large; ">'&nbsp;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 48px; font-size: xx-large; ">bathroom.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: xx-large; ">The court concluded that the school district</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 48px; font-size: xx-large; ">'</span><span style="font-size: xx-large; ">s actions violated the Maine Human Rights Act, which bans discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity, overturning a lower court</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 48px; font-size: xx-large; ">'</span><span style="font-size: xx-large; ">s ruling that the district acted within its discretion.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: xx-large; ">In the Maine case, Nicole Maines was using the girls</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 48px; font-size: xx-large; ">'</span><span style="font-size: xx-large; ">&nbsp;bathroom in her elementary school until the grandfather of a fifth-grade boy complained to administrators. The Orono school district determined that she should use a staff bathroom, but her parents said that amounted to discrimination.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: xx-large; ">This will be just one of many cases that will probably end up in the U.S. Supreme Court for final resolution regarding where transgendered individuals can go to the bathroom.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: xx-large; ">What do you feel is the resolution to the transgender bathroom facility situation?</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: xx-large; ">Require the use of the bathroom that corresponds to your birth sex.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: xx-large; ">Schools should make all bathrooms unisex.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: xx-large; ">Schools should allow transgendered students to use the bathroom opposite of their birth sex</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: xx-large; ">Schools should create a common bathroom for all transgendered individuals</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: xx-large; ">Schools should create separate transgendered bathrooms for each sex</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: xx-large; ">Undecided</span></div>
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