KENOSHA UNIFIED SCHOOL DIST. v. WHITAKER

No. 16-8019.

841 F.3d 730 (2016)

KENOSHA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 1 BOARD OF EDUCATION, et al., Petitioners-Defendants, v. Ashton WHITAKER, Respondent-Plaintiff.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided November 14, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald S. Stadler , Attorney, Mallery & Zimmerman, Milwaukee, WI, for Petitioners-Defendants.

Shawn Thomas Meerkamper , Alison Pennington , Ilona M. Turner , Attorneys, Transgender Law Center, Oakland, CA, Joseph John Wardenski , Sasha M. Samberg-Champion , Attorney, Reiman, Dane & Colfax PLLC, Washington, DC, Robert Theine Pledl , Attorney, Pledl & Cohn, Milwaukee, WI, for Respondent-Plaintiff.

Before RIPPLE, KANNE, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.


Plaintiff Ash Whitaker is a transgender boy whose high school will not permit him to use the boys' bathroom. He sued the school district for discriminating against him on the basis of sex, in violation of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, 20 U.S.C. § 1681, and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. After the...

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