It's South Carolina, so don't expect a happy ending.

When the boy, who wishes to remain anonymous, began transitioning when he was in middle school, girls complained that there was a boy in their bathroom. So he was allowed to use the boys room. He did that for three years without incident.

Then the boy moved on to Socastee High School. Again, no problem for three years.

One day a male teacher was leaving the boys restroom while the boy was entering.

No word on what the hell the adult teacher was doing in the boys room.

He must’ve looked at his records and saw the sex on his records because that’s the only way he could’ve known.

--the boy's mother

Instead of the teacher being told by the administration to butt out, the boy was called in to the office and told he must use the girls bathroom or go to the nurse's office.

If he started using the girl’s bathroom in 12th grade, it’s going to create a problem. I felt like that would be dangerous.

The nurse’s office is downstairs on the first floor of the school and the school has three stories.

--Mom

So the boy started just trying to "hold it" all day. His mother thought that was totes unhealthy. So she told him to resume using the boys room.

Two weeks ago, he left an assembly to use the bathroom and passed teachers along the way. Although a teacher asked him to use the closest bathroom, he said it was dirty and went to the next one. He said the teacher followed him. He used the boy’s bathroom. The next day he was suspended from school for a day.

--Tim Peacock

They did not give me a copy of the write up. They did not talk to me.

--Mom

Thereafter his mother enrolled him in online classes to circumvent the hostile school environment. While the environment is safer, it lacks the opportunities and socialization public school offer.

--Peacock

He had to stop drama. He had to drop out of the play he was doing.

Let the transgender kids be themselves. Let them be safe and let them be comfortable. Let them have their education in an environment where they are not harassed or felt to be unsafe.

--Mom

Horry County Schools say they have no transgender student policy, but make accommodations on a case by case basis.

In this instance that accommodation appears to run counter to Title IX’s prohibition on differential treatment of transgender students.

The student’s mother said Socastee High School administrators would not cooperate with her on a plan for the student’s bathroom use and said the principal told her mother the student needed a doctor’s note to work through the issue.

That doesn’t appear to be accommodation so much as a rationalization to discriminate and harass an innocent transgender student.

--Peacock

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