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Four families in Colorado are suing their local school district after it allegedly trried to make an 11-year-old girl share a bed with a male-born transgender student on an overnight school trip.
The families claim the district assigns rooms based on “gender identity” rather than biological sex, without informing parents or obtaining their consent.
The legal action, titled “Wailes v Jefferson County Public Schools”, has reached the US Court of Appeals, with opening arguments submitted on Wednesday.
The first incident occurred in summer 2023 when Joe and Serena Wailes’s daughter, who had just completed fifth grade – or Year Six – travelled on a school excursion to Philadelphia and Washington DC.
She was allocated a twin-bed hotel room with three other pupils – two from her own school and one from another district school.
While getting ready to sleep on the first evening, the girl discovered her “bed partner” was biologically male but identified as female.
District officials had earlier said male and female students would be accommodated on separate hotel floors.
The families say the district provides no mechanism for parents to opt out or request their children share rooms exclusively with pupils of the same biological sex.
Source: Furious parents sue school after girl, 11, ‘forced to share bed with trans classmate on field trip’