Mukwonago Litigation Continues! Federal Trial Court Upholds Transgender Students Equal Protection Claim Challenging School Bathroom Policy – Hodges, Loizzi, Eisenhammer, Rodick & Kohn

Mukwonago Litigation Continues! Federal Trial Court Upholds Transgender Students Equal Protection Claim Challenging School Bathroom Policy – Hodges, Loizzi, Eisenhammer, Rodick & Kohn

In Doe v. Mukwonago Area School District et al., a Wisconsin federal trial court is allowing a Plaintiff’s equal protection claim to proceed, challenging a board of education’s policy to deny the student access to the bathroom of the gender the student identifies with.  The case began in 2023, when a transgender student by and through her mother sued a Wisconsin school district after it adopted Policy 5514, requiring students to use bathrooms an…