JACKSON, Miss. — A federal choose says he won’t block a Mississippi faculty district from requiring a transgender lady to decorate as boy for highschool commencement.

U.S. District Judge Taylor McNeel filed his order late Friday after holding a listening to on a lawsuit that the American Civil Liberties Union filed on behalf of the 17-year-old lady towards the Harrison County School District.

The lady, listed in court docket papers by her initials L.B., had chosen a costume to put on together with her cap and robe Saturday at Harrison Central High School in Gulfport, a coastal city about 160 miles south of Jackson. Graduating boys are anticipated to put on white shirts and black slacks, whereas ladies are anticipated to put on white clothes.

Harrison County School District officers advised L.B. that she should comply with the boys’ clothes guidelines for commencement, based on the lawsuit the ACLU filed Thursday.

The Associated Press left telephone and e mail messages with the ACLU Saturday to ask whether or not L.B.’s household will enchantment the choose’s determination to not concern a short lived restraining order towards the college district and whether or not she is going to take part within the commencement ceremony.

The lawsuit mentioned L.B. wore clothes to courses and extracurricular occasions all through highschool, together with to a promenade final yr, and she or he mustn’t face discriminatory therapy throughout commencement.

Wynn Clark, lawyer for the Harrison County School Board, responded in court docket papers Friday that taking part in a commencement ceremony is voluntary and never a constitutionally protected proper for any scholar.