A Wisconsin-based law firm is demanding communication records from a local school district that allegedly allowed an 18-year-old transgender-identifying male to shower naked in the girls’ locker room in front of four female students.
In an April 19 letter addressed to the Sun Prairie Area School District (SPASD), the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty (WILL) filed an open records request for any and all communications related to an incident last month at Sun Prairie East High School (EHS), in which an 18-year-old male student, who claims to be a woman, purportedly showered unclothed in the girl’s school locker room in the presence of four female, freshmen students.
“We have concerns, and we have questions … Is this school district meeting their [Title IX] obligations under the existing federal law, and what policies are in effect right now?” Libby Sobic, WILL’s director of education policy, told The Federalist. “The school administration is not making that clear.”
Sun Prairie, a Madison suburb, is located in the deep-blue enclave of Dane County.
The incident in question allegedly occurred on March 3, when the four aforementioned female students participated in a swim unit as part of their physical education class. After finishing the course, the four female freshmen entered the EHS girl’s locker room and noticed a senior male student — who was not in the physical education class the girls participated in — near the facility’s lockers and benches. According to WILL, the girls “were surprised to see him in the locker
