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Student: Professor: Course: Date: Somerset County School Board v. C.C., by his next friend and mother, Sandra Cortex. This is a case that was presented by Sandra, mother to Chris against the Somerset County School Board. This is after the parents of the school were against Chris using the restrooms for males as a boy. Chris is a child born with a disability of transgender. At birth, Chris is identified as a lady. With time, the male hormones were dominant, therefore calling for hormone therapy which was done unto him, and he is finally recognized as a male. In the year 2016, Chris together with his mother met the principal and the guidance and counseling council of Somerset high school together they discussed on the case of Chris and the board agreed to allow him to come and join the school as a male student. Therefore, they allocated him the male restrooms where he stayed for quite a time before conflicts arose. The parents of Somerset learned of Chris and raised a concern to the board of managers as to why a girl child was allowed to use a male's restroom. Therefore, they demanded that the child could be relocated to the restrooms that are for ladies since that is the birth gender that Chris was identified with. This led to a board meeting where many parents were concerned of the comfortability of their children. Other parents raised concerns that decreed that Chris went to the male bathrooms to peep on the male in their bathing rooms. This seemed like a speech of belittling the boy child who had an issue with his gender at birth. From the complaints that were presented, the school board had to come up with a strategy whereby privacy of each child in the
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