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High School Students Protest Transgender Girl Using Locker Room

High School Students Protest Transgender Girl Using Locker Room
Hillsboro High School senior and transgender student Lila Perry speaks with reporters after a student protest over Perry's request to use the girls bathrooms and locker rooms rather than a unisex faculty bathroom. (Robert Cohen/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP)

By    |   Tuesday, 01 September 2015 01:54 PM EDT

Students at a Missouri high school walked out of their classes Monday to protest a transgender girl using the girls locker room.

The protest involving 200 students at Hillsboro High school lasted about two hours, according to Fox 2 Now.

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The student, Lila Perry, 17, publicly came out as a transgender girl last February and was granted the right to use the girl's locker room this school year. Last school year, she used gender-neutral facilities to change.

"I feel these girls have a right to their own privacy," said Jeff Childs, a parent at the school. "Without the privacy they have nothing."

The protest followed a school board meeting last week where parents voiced their concern over Lila being given special treatment, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

"The girls have rights, and they shouldn't have to share a bathroom with a boy," parent Tammy Sorden said.

While much of the school backed the protest, there was a small group that supported Lila.

"I wasn't hurting anyone. I didn't want to be in something gender-neutral," Lila told the Dispatch-Post. "I am a girl. I am not going to be pushed away to another bathroom."

Since the protests, she dropped out of PE and will have no need to use the girl's locker room now, Fox 2 Now reports. She will continue to use the girl's bathroom, however.

"I think this is pure and simple bigotry. I think they are using their claim they are uncomfortable to target me a transgender woman," she said.

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