Transgender student alleges assault after using bathroom, family calls for charges
A transgender student is speaking out along with their family after allegedly being assaulted while using the bathroom in their Minnetonka, Minnesota, high school.
The May 30 incident is being investigated as a possible hate crime, according to local police.
Cobalt Sovereign, 17, told ABC News they were using the men's bathroom around 2:30 p.m. local time when a male student started peering over the stall while they were using the facility.
Sovereign said the student directed an anti-LGBTQ slur at them, and they said they decided to leave the restroom without finishing because of the other student's alleged hostility.
"I asked him what his problem was -- I had never seen him. I didn't do anything to bother him in any way whatsoever. And so I had no idea why he was being not kind to me," said Sovereign. Sovereign uses both they/them and she/her pronouns, identifying as both nonbinary or transgender.
In the hallway, Sovereign said they were followed by the student and two others. Out of the blue, they said, one of the students punched Sovereign.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/transgender-student-assaulted-after-bathroom-family-calls-charges/story?id=110927216
What was the other student doing peering over the stall?
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