Alex Wilson is a certified nursing assistant, but she wants to become a licensed practical nurse, so she’s taking classes at Pinellas Technical Education Center.
Until early July, she had been using the women’s restroom at school. Wilson was born male, but is four years into hormone replacement therapy. She hasn’t undergone sexual reassignment surgery.
When a student complained to administrators, Wilson was yanked out of class and told she could not use the women’s restroom, he told WFLA-TV in Tampa. They threatened to expel her and alert law enforcement.
Wilson said school administrators have relegated him to a facility in an inconvenient storage facility on campus and she is not happy.
Melanie Marquez Parra, Pinellas County Schools spokesman, told WFLA that in such situations students are offered access to a restroom that provides privacy both for the individual and other students.
Transgender restroom rights have come under scrutiny lately after a highly publicized case in Colorado. The state’s Division of Civil Rights ruled last month that a school district discriminated against Coy Mathis, a 6-year-old transgender girl, by barring her from the girls’ bathroom.
