Texas School District Using Loophole to Get Around Its Own Transgender Bathroom Policy

Girl who wants to be a boy seen in male student restroom using prosthetic device to urinate

A gender neutral sign is posted on a bathroom. Frisco ISD voted for a policy assigning students to use the bathroom based on their sex at birth. Sara D. Davis/Getty Images

A Texas school has quietly allowed transgender students to use bathrooms of their choice for years while telling other students who feel uncomfortable about the move to use a single-person restroom.

At a Nov. 14 meeting, parents for and against transgender students using bathrooms of their choice spoke at a Frisco Independent School District (FISD) board meeting. Trustees were scheduled to vote on a formal bathroom policy brought up by conservative board members Stephanie Elad and Marvin Lowe.