School Assigned Girl To Share Bed With Trans-Identifying Boy Without Parental Notification: Report

A Colorado school district assigned an 11-year-old girl to share a bed with a biological boy who identifies as transgender, according to a demand letter from the girl’s parents.

Jefferson County Public Schools in the Denver area assigned the fifth grade girl to a room with three other students, two girls from her school and a boy from a different school, during a cross-country overnight trip in June to Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., said the letter, first reported by The Daily Signal.

The 11-year-old was told she would share a bed with the trans-identifying boy. However, she became uncomfortable later that evening when the students were in their room together and the boy revealed he was actually a boy who identified as a girl. The young girl snuck into the bathroom and quietly called her mother, who had come on the trip but was not a chaperone. The girl and her mother asked the chaperones to move her to a different room, and initially, the chaperones tried to have her simply switch beds in the same room. However, the chaperones eventually agreed to move the boy to a different room, but “lied” to the other students about why, saying one of the girls needed more space, the letter states.