Settlement Reached with Palatine, Ill., Township High School District 211 to Remedy Transgender Discrimination

The U.S. Department of Education announced today that it has entered into a resolution agreement with Township High School District 211 based in Palatine, Illinois, after finding the district in violation of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 for discriminating against a transgender high school student by denying her access to the girls' locker rooms.

Read the press release here.

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