Civil Rights Complaint Filed After Illinois School Reportedly Forced Girls To Change In Front Of Trans-Identified Male Student

A middle school in Illinois reportedly forced a class of 13-year-old girls to change in front of a trans-identified male student in the school locker rooms after a Physical Education class, according to the mother of one of the girls involved.

Speaking during a meeting of the Deerfield School District 109 School Board on Thursday, Nicole Georgas revealed that on February 5, her daughter came home “frightened” and “upset” after finding a male student in the girls’ bathroom at school. Concerned, Georgas contacted the administration, and was told that under direction from their legal counsel, that if the student identifies as female, they are free to use any of the sex-segregated facilities as they so choose.

Only a few days later, “the situation went from bad to worse,” as according to Georgas, the male student was then present in the girls’ locker rooms for their Physical Education (PE) class. The girls, unwilling to have their privacy violated even further, collectively refused to undress in front of him. The following day, Assistant Principal Cathy Van Treese hauled the girls into her office and questioned them, before escorting them to their locker room and forcing them to change into their uniforms with the boy present. Van Treese was accompanied by Assistant Superintendent Joanna Ford and Director for Student Services Ginger Logemann. The monitoring to ensure compliance allegedly happened “all week,” Georgas explained to the district.

“My daughter refused to take part in having her privacy violated. How dare they. She ran out and called me for help,” she added. The solution presented by the school was for Georgas’s daughter to simply swap into a new PE class, which was flatly refused.

Under Illinois state law, the “rights” of trans-identified individuals, especially students, to go into whatever facilities they please, are firmly protected. According to the state’s Department of Human Rights, “the discomfort or privacy concerns of other students, teachers, or parents are not valid reasons to deny or limit the full and equal use of facilities based on a student’s gender-related identity. Instead, any student, teacher or other individual seeking more privacy should be accommodated by providing that individual a more private option upon their request, if possible.”

However, since President Trump’s return to office, the federal government has been empowered to “take all appropriate action to affirmatively protect all-female athletic opportunities and all-female locker rooms and thereby provide the equal opportunity guaranteed by Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972,” with the President declaring as he signed the executive order coincidentally also on February 5t, that “if you let men… invade your locker rooms, you will be investigated for violations of Title IX and risk your federal funding.”

As such, Georgas revealed that she had filed a civil rights complaint with the Department of Justice that has now been referred to the Department of Education, along with a federal complaint directly to the district in order to protect her daughter and other students. At the time of the executive order, the school district declared that they were “committed to providing a safe, inclusive, and high-quality education for all students.”

“The girls just want their privacy and they want their locker room back. There are gender neutral options,” Georgas continued. “This is my daughter’s story and the story of many other young girls who have been forced at a difficult age to do something they know and most adults know is wrong… Allowing biological males to access girl’s locker rooms sets a dangerous precedent that erodes the very foundation of female privacy and safety. By making this decision, the school board is not only disregarding the concerns of young female students, but also establishing a legal and policy framework that will make it increasingly difficult to protect the integrity of female-only spaces in the future.”

Following her speech, Georgas was booed by a number of trans activists, who accused her of being “obsessed with children’s genitals.” No other speaker at the meeting was in support of Georgas, and instead was filled with various loud accusations of bigotry, in some cases directly pointed at her.

One speaker Charlie Friedman, who serves as a director for the Trans Upfront organization, accused Georgas of “bullying” trans-identified children just for being concerned about her daughter. Another argued it was a “deliberate misrepresentation” to claim that girls were forced to change in front of a boy, because “who they’re talking about is a girl, a transgender girl,” comparing their concerns to racism, while a third suggested the school would have to perform “genital checks” on students, because “a lot of transgender people pass.”

The final speaker, Tina Nelson, who wore a shirt reading “Protect Trans Kids” alongside a knife, directly confronted Georgas, staring her down and accusing her of using a “white supremacist religion to push the agenda of their cis white husbands… targeting a middle school student because of your white God.”

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