When school officials told Drew Adams he couldn’t use the boy’s bathroom because he is transgender, he and his supportive mother fought back. Pride50
Drew Adams was excited to start his freshman year at Allen D. Nease High School in Ponte Vedra, Florida, in the fall of 2015.Not only would it be his first year of high school — it would be his first year living openly as a boy. But Adams’ excitement faded after school officials told him he couldn’t use the boy’s bathroom because he is transgender.“I was upset and angry because I knew I didn’t do anything wrong,” Adams told NBC News.
Adams’ attorneys argued that the school district violated his constitutional rights and his rights under Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972, which bars discrimination “on the basis of sex.” The school district appealed in August 2018 to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, where the case is now pending.
“I’ve always been very big about using my voice and using my privilege — the privilege of a supportive family and financial stability and all that — to better the lives of the less privileged,” Adams said. “So to know that I was doing that, and to know that I was making that sort of change that I was wanting to be making this whole time, was really empowering.”
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