Lawsuit: Trans Male Student Illegally Allowed by School to Use Girls’ Bathroom Assaults Female Student
The superintendent claimed ignorance of the female-identifying trans student’s true sex, claiming the student’s parents enrolled him as a female and the student presented “by all social norms” as female.
The mother of an unnamed female Oklahoma student (E.G.) sued her daughter’s school on May 25, 2023, after the girl was “attacked and severely beaten” by a “male transgender student in the designated girls’ bathroom” on October 26, 2022. The lawsuit alleges Edmond Memorial High School allowed the male student to use the girls’ bathroom in violation of an Oklahoma law enacted on May 25, 2022.
The alleged assault occurred five days after “the Edmond Police remove[d] the male transgender student from the girls’ bathroom and search[ed] him for a weapon after” he allegedly made threats against E.G.
Edmond Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Angela Grunewald issued a video statement on the assault on December 16, 2022. Grunewald claimed the trans male student was a recent admittee whose parents enrolled him as a female and who presented “by all social norms” as female. Grunewald stated policy did not require a birth certificate for high school students.
According to Grunewald, the trans male student was disciplined for violating school policy against fighting and for using a bathroom inconsistent with his sex. Grunewald stated the trans male student was no longer enrolled at Edmond Memorial High School as of the date of the video.
The complaint alleges that E.G. informed a school official “that the male transgender student had confided in her that he was, in fact, a male student that identified as female.”
The Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs responded to Grunewald’s statement on December 20, 2022. The response cites Oklahoma state Senator David Bullard criticizing the school’s decision to take students “at their word because ‘they dress that way, that’s what they are’” as a “full violation of the text of that law.” The organization noted Edmond Public Schools’ enrollment page requires new students to provide “a legal birth certificate.”
The Oklahoma law at issue is Title 70, § 1-125. The law defines “sex” as “the physical condition of being male or female based on genetics and physiology, as identified on the individual’s original birth certificate.” Section 125 mandates
B. . . . [E]ach public school and public charter school that serves students in prekindergarten through twelfth grades in this state shall require every multiple occupancy restroom or changing area designated as follows:
1. For the exclusive use of the male sex; or
2. For the exclusive use of the female sex.
The law gives parents or guardians the right to sue for noncompliance:
G. A parent or legal guardian of a student enrolled in and physically attending a public school district or public charter school shall have a cause of action against the public school district or public charter school for noncompliance with the provisions of subsections B and C of this section.
The plaintiff seeks damages “in excess of $75,000.00,” costs, and attorney fees from Edmond Public Schools.
A representative for Edmond Public Schools declined to comment on the pending litigation.
Edmond Public Schools Lawsuit by OKCFOX
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Just keep this trash up.
Correct. There will be a time when Corleone Justice will be meted out to these people. I know that had this happened to my daughter, that kid would be unrecognizable, and I would have an ironclad alibi.
But my bet. Dad isn’t anywhere in the picture, and mom is the only parent around.
Don’t underestimate Mom. A friend greeted her ex at the door with a baseball bat and threatened to beat him to a pulp, when he threatened to sue for custody. She is short and slight of build, a super liberal who volunteered in Haiti until just recently, when Haiti became too dangerous. But first of all, she’s a mom.
That sounds more like an abusive woman refusing to let her children see their father. She initiated the divorce, didn’t she?
What?
$75,000 for an ass beating from a male student who has a mental breakdown?
MILLIONS!!!!! MILLIONS!!! From the school district, from the deranged character’s parents, and the Superintendent.
The people needing an ass beating are the deranged students, their parents, and the school administration.
I agree that the school district should be punished, but I fear that the taxpayers would end up paying.
The deranged students should be put in mental institutions, the parents should be jailed for failing to care for their children, and the school administration should be fired and/or jailed as well.
That’s why I always advocate that the union of any public servant in gross violation of the law, duty, etc. should be held liable for civil penalties. If teachers, cops, whatever couldn’t just violate the law and pass the buck onto me, they might think twice about it next time.
Additionally, their union might make it a point to ensure their members followed the law. If the union heads don’t, the union members will feel the pinch and elect heads that do.
I keep asking this question regarding crimes committed by students but haven’t received an answer yet.
Why isn’t the “male student” who allegedly committed this assault in jail awaiting his CRIMINAL trial instead of having his crimes forgiven by a School District kangaroo court?
Is there some aspect of the Constitution of which I am unaware that grants schools such authority?
No. More students should face criminal charges for their behavior. This has long baffled me as well.
answer: The Acronym Society has been established as the official state religion – our legal system has been bent and twisted to accommodate them.
What?! And send a thug into the “school to prison pipeline”?
Curious how they whine about that, while it’s operated entirely by teachers’ union members…
Which is exactly the problem. Nothing ever actually happens to the school officials who were in dereliction of their duties, it is always the local taxpayers that foot the bill for their negligent psychosis.
Take the superintendent in her video. Why the hell is she smiling? Because she knows she is basically untouchable.
Look at all the money we have thrown at “education” over the past couple of decades, only to have test scores decline and more excuses made for poor performance. All that money and have teachers salaries increased? Nope, but “administrative” jobs and salaries have increase by about 18% over the past decade.
That should tell you all you need to know.
The only real solution is to abolish government schools
I’m also wondering on the amount. Seems like an odd figure.
The More than $75k number allows for federal diversity jurisdiction.
If he went into the girl’s restroom illegally then it is his fault, not the school’s. I may be missing something here but what a student does on their own should not be the school’s fault.
“In excess of $75,000” is the threshold amount in controversy for filing a tort claim in federal district court on the basis of diversity of citizenship. I know this case was filed in Oklahoma state court. But I wonder if some young associate just left that language in from a prior complaint that was used a template to prepare this complaint. I see that a lot where an attorney doesn’t really understand the significance of particular language, so they leave it in out of an abundance of caution.
In any school districts the girl would be told to get therapy for her transphobia by the officials and likely punished.
According to leftists, the girl should have laid down, let the perpetrator have his way with her, and then perhaps pissed herself.
And apologized.
This is all so convoluted. Isn’t a trans male a female at birth? I have seen other articles describing this nutter as a trans woman..
The bottom line, this was a guy..
https://nypost.com/2023/06/01/oklahoma-parent-files-suit-after-daughter-was-beaten-by-trans-student/
Thank you, Austin Powers.
The entire leftist transsexual dogma’s terminology is unsustainable.
When a wolf puts on sheep’s clothing, is it no longer a wolf?
Does it no longer have wolf instincts and desires?
“Okay. So now you’re are now a sheep, why do you have such big teeth?”
“All the better to eat you with, my dear.”
“…claiming the student’s parents enrolled him as a female and the student presented “by all social norms” as female.”
Then the parents need to go to prison, and the boy in a dress into a mental institution.
This. It’s the best resolution all around. Even if this kid was the best actor ever, and everybody at the school was fooled, the parents defrauded the school.
No, a Mental institution these days would just reinforce his delusion that he is female and being abused. Psychiatry and Psychology are the beating heart of lefts insane beliefs in Modern Medicine.
Yes. The psychiatric professions are completely in the bag for this. I would say around 80% of them go into the field to figure out what is wrong with themselves. They later vote so that in the next DSM whatever is wrong with them is normal and you are the one with mental illness.
Interesting comment.
Since gender itself is a construct, an idea or theory containing various conceptual elements, typically one considered to be subjective and not based on empirical evidence, then isn’t that an admission a trans person only thinks/believes to be the opposite of what reality, based on empirical evidence, actually shows?
From schools to prisons, sex obsessed inmates taking over the asylum, but now the victims are seeking their own justice and civil rights and to quell those that trespass and especially pose harm to their children.
Something tells me there will be more to this story.
The smug, happy look on the school superintendent’s face in the video makes me hope someone introduces her to a woodchipper.
The key thing for parents to learn though is that the public school systems do not give ANY priority on the safety of their students when it conflicts with any Leftist narrative.
Subotai Bahadur
This is exactly why The Apparatus gets so wee-wee’d up when parents show up to steer schools toward benefitting their kids.
Just because they pay for it, they think they get a seat at the table? Just because it’s their kids, they think they have a say in what mattes?
no, the thing to do is withdraw children en masse from government schools
Note that as is Louden Co., the perp was merely transferred to another school, as he had been recently transferred to this one. (Any doubts he had similar problem at his prior schools?) The self-satisfaction in the video (Aside: Why do a video on this unless you believe your audience is stupid and easily mislead.) is palpable and repulsive. This is their plan: Transfer the wrongdoer as quickly as possible and try to stay ahead of the lawsuits. He’s someone else’s problem now.
All girls must be sacrificed on the trans alter and, when the case settles, the responsible parties will pay nothing, unlike the taxpayers.
This won’t be remedied until the school system is shut down
Really? It’s not your fault because he didn’t have to present a birth certificate?
What did the kid’s RECORDS say? Was he a ‘male’ or ‘female’ at his past schools? What disciplinary issues did he have?
And why isn’t the press willing to ask such obvious questions?
Rhetorical question of course.
The alphabet people mafia has many institutions running scared. Couple that with the sort of folks that are attracted to K-12 ED as a career path. Not all for sure but many in K-12 ED are NPCs. The admin folks are worse, they cling to ‘district policy’ like a talisman.
Bing bing, we have a winner. Where is the press? Why does not the press interview this child’s parents? What does his father have to say? How about the mother?
I do not have children, but this child has parents. Who are they? Why is the press not seeking them out to interview them? What do they have to say? Is this an unrealistic question?
What type of man raises a child like this? Can we please know? Can the press not be bothered to simply ask him? Surely he can refuse to respond, but why not ask him?
The psychiatrists need to do a study into the mental fitness of parents who raise these children. If I had a son that persistently used the female bathrooms, I would sit him down and explain to him that his behavior is unacceptable. If he continued, I would yank him from the school, if for nothing else to preserve the safety of the females. I would enroll him into a military-style academy. But we never hear about these children’s parents.
Who is ‘Lia’ Thomas’ father? Did he not sit his son down and explain to him that a 6′ 4″ young man should not be competing against young women? Can the press not ask him?
Are my inquiries unjustified?
Erronius
Basically the defense is, “it’s not their fault” because the school administration didn’t obey state law.
🤔
answer: they don’t care. All they care about is the state & federal funding they get per student.
So, the defense’s argument is a complete lie.
They all knew this was a male pretending to be a female.
They just figure that the plaintiff won’t be able to *prove* that they knew.
Liberals are the worst people that ever existed.
I remember learning in history class about the time of the American Revolution and the practice of tarring and feathering. I remember thinking it was awfully extreme. Now? I totally get it.
Where are the young men? Law enforcement and the legislatures appear to be paralyzed.
I went to High school. I went to college. There is no way that any man could possibly violate the space of young women at the time I was in college. They would be beaten to a pulp by young men, and deservedly so.
Who is this Lia Thomas fellow? Why are the young men not beating the crap out of this fellow? Young women exert a great deal of influence over young men. Why are not the young women asking, demanding, the young men to protect them?
If Lia Thomas wishes to swim against females, he should have to stand up to young men. Not by women but by men. Where are the men? Why is it up to Riley Gaines, a female, to put a stop to this nonsense?
When I was in college, if any female approached me and said that a man was threatening her, I would have beaten the crap out of him. Where are the men?
‘Lia Thomas’ should have a black eye, a broken nose, and a spiral fracture. He should be humiliated.
Erronius
I could not agree more. But the downvotes on your comment prove that we have become a society of sniveling pussies.
In the era you you refer to a young man taking those actions would have been praised, today they would be prosecuted for assault with a sentence enhancement for a ‘hate crime’.
Unfortunately feminism has effectively killed chivalry, at least among strangers. We are becoming a low trust society where we only look out for family and maybe friends. Mere acquaintances much less strangers shouldn’t expect much help. See the treatment Mr Penny was subjected to for his actions on the NYC subway.
wrong question. The correct question is why didn’t the female athletes withdraw en masse from all sports when this nonsense started?
What a vile take. How about because they have invested their lives in athletics and are true professionals who gain scholarships and aspire to represent our great nation at the Olympics one day.
The more pertinent question here since you are so glib about others throwing their lives and careers down the drain to make a stand is what do YOU do to pushback against the Democrats’ destructive agenda? What have you personally sacrificed in this culture war? From what I see you just snipe and snarl at people who are actually trying to make a difference on our side.
If you can’t or won’t engage, sit down and shut up while the adults fix this mess.
And never ever hold yourself above people like this young woman who did take a very public stand, who did put it all on the line. Who knows the fury she will reap from the left. But, yeah, keep sniping at her courage in comment sections. That’s the ticket.
I get your point, Not-A-Lawyer. I suspect you and I are of the same generation. I’m a grandfather, and if a non-eunuch biological male insisted on sharing my granddaughter’s changing room or bathroom, I’d probably give myself a fatal heart attack in order to batter him to a pulp with my cane. Ditto if a male-to-male perv went after my grandson.
However, in the intervening years, we’ve seen a radical feminist movement take over and foist a virulent anti-male ideology on everything, all while demanding to be allowed to be as sexually free as the worst kind of biological men. They also made themselves rivals of the men, rather than complements or supportive wives. They insist that they are the voice of “wymyn”, even though they helped along this LGBTQRSTUVWXYZ madness at its inception. Is it any wonder that young men lack any senseTof chivalry?
My father, alov hasholom, once griped that modern liberalism was making everyone a rival of everyone else. That gave me a shudder later on when I read Hobbes on the “war of all against all”, That is where we are at now.
Sorry for the misspelling.
The problem is the bureaucracy illustrated by the superintendent. Her silly “social norms” statement does not explain why the boys previous school records and doctors records showing him as a boy were not considered. She and the people under her just didn’t want to follow the law and instead thought an ideology was more important than students safety.
Until those like the super are fired and replaced this nonsense will go on.
Probably so. I’d take the bet.
We are way overdue for a severe and complete backlash to this insanity, Gloves off time.