La Feria school district faces transgender yearbook dispute
LA FERIA — A civil rights group Wednesday demanded that the La Feria school district allow an 18-year-old transgender student to wear a tuxedo in his high school yearbook photograph.
The Southern Poverty Law Center accused the school district of violating federal law when it denied Jeydon Loredo his right to wear the tuxedo in the yearbook, said Alesdair Ittelson, an attorney with the Alabama-based organization.
“I want to be in the yearbook like everybody because it shows who I really am and down the road I don’t want people to forget me,” Jeydon said in an interview.
The law center said in a press release: “Though Jeydon was assigned a female gender at birth, his gender identity — his internal sense of gender — is male.”
More at http://www.brownsvilleherald.com/news/local/article_16c2980c-4cdd-11e3-9b20-001a4bcf6878.html .
Cross-posted at Texas Group.
