A SIX-YEAR-OLD transgender girl will be able to return to school in Colorado after winning the right to use the girls' bathroom.
Coy Mathis' parents filed a complaint with the Colorado Civil Rights Division after she was denied access to the girls' bathroom at Eagleside Elementary School in Colorado Springs.
On Monday, the Mathis family and its lawyers celebrated the civil rights ruling on the steps of the state capitol.
Coy, dressed in a glittering tank top, jeans and pink canvas sneakers, ran around a towering blue spruce tree as her mother spoke to reporters.
"Her future will be better if we get to this place where this is nothing to be ashamed of," Kathryn Mathis said.
As the country's gay rights movement has won mounting legal and electoral victories in recent years, advocates hope the latest decision will lend momentum to the struggles of transgender people.
"This is by far the high-water mark for cases dealing with the rights of transgendered people to access bathrooms," said the Mathis family's lawyer, Michael Silverman of the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund.
He and other advocates said the case is one of several potentially ground-breaking transgendered civil rights cases winding their way through US courts.
Coy was born a triplet with two sisters and identified as a girl before she began attending elementary school.
She showed little interest in toy cars and boy clothes with pictures of sports, monsters and dinosaurs on them. She refused to leave the house if she had to wear boy clothes.
After her parents accepted her identity, they said, Coy come out of her shell.
Coy was diagnosed with "gender identity disorder" - a designation the American Psychiatric Association removed last year from its list of mental ailments.
The removal reflected the growing medical consensus that identification as another gender cannot be changed.
The Mathises said they feared the district's decision would stigmatise Coy, who was reduced to tears when her teacher briefly put her in the boys' line.
When she came home, according to legal records, she cried to her parents: "Not even my teachers know I'm a girl!"
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