Back in May of last year, the state of Oklahoma passed a law requiring students in public schools to use restrooms, showers, and other related facilities that correspond to their actual gender as determined on their birth certificates. While the measure received wide public support, some school districts have apparently been ignoring the law. That includes Edmond Memorial High School in the small city of Edmond, Oklahoma. Last October, a 15-year-old girl only identified as “E.G.” was “severely beaten” in the girl’s room at the school by a 17-year-old male dressed as a female. Now the parents are taking the school district to court for ignoring the law and endangering their daughter. (NY Post)

An Oklahoma parent sued their daughter’s school district last week, alleging that the staff’s failure to enforce a state law requiring that students use the bathroom that corresponds with their gender at birth led to the teen being “severely beaten” by a trans classmate last fall.

Theresa Gooden alleges in the suit filed last Thursday that her 15-year-old daughter – identified as “E.G.” – was “attacked and severely beaten” in the girls’ restroom at Edmond Memorial High School by a 17-year-old transgender woman on Oct. 26, 2022.

The document, which was obtained by The Post, notes that the accused attacker was assigned male at birth, and was using the women’s bathroom despite a state law signed in May 2022 that requires public school students to use restrooms matching the sex on their birth certificates.

To be fair, it’s not 100% clear whether the school was entirely ignoring the law and failing to enforce the policy. A spokesperson for the school said that the school district didn’t know the attacker was trans because they had only been enrolled there a week earlier and his parents didn’t provide a birth certificate at the time of enrollment. But the victim’s parents dispute this, saying that E.G. had told the school’s assistant principal about the student’s gender identity prior to the beating.

The entire situation is entirely out of hand. The state law was enacted reasonably, allowing for trans-identifying students to use a single-occupancy restroom or changing room if they are uncomfortable using the proper facility. But as we’ve seen in too many cases around the country already, that’s not good enough for the trans activists. They want this to be in everyone’s faces and making use of such an accommodation isn’t good enough to achieve their political and social reconstruction goals.

The trans student has been removed and is no longer enrolled at Edmond, but that’s not good enough. A civil lawsuit is a good start, but why haven’t charges been brought by the police? E.G. was reportedly left with “severe physical and mental injuries, severe physical and mental pain and suffering, and severe emotional distress.” At the age of seventeen, people can be charged as adults when they commit a violent crime. And the parent should be held accountable as well. They were obviously trying to hide their son’s actual gender from the school, leaving the female students exposed to dangers that proved to be absolutely real.

How many more of these incidents do we need to see before this problem is taken seriously? And is anyone investigating the background of this student to determine if there were other factors that should have been taken into consideration? Was he on any prescription drugs? Had he been diagnosed with any other mental illnesses aside from gender dysphoria? Did he have a history of violence at any other schools before being surreptitiously transferred to Edmond?

If the answers to any of those questions are “yes,” the transfer shouldn’t have been allowed. Or, at a minimum, the parents of the rest of the students should have been made aware of that fact and there should have been extra monitors in place to keep the rest of the children safe. And where is the student now? Has he been enrolled in yet another school? If so, have they been made aware?