Transgendered ask for unisex restrooms

A transgendered former school athlete is asking the state to require unisex bathrooms in middle and high schools. 16-year-old Kyle Giard-Chase asked the Vermont Human Rights Commission to endorse the effort. He said that as a three-sport athlete at Burlington High School, he was verbally harassed and threatened by the members of the host school's football team for using the girls' restroom. Gender-neutral bathrooms can be converted from handicapped bathrooms. The commission expressed some sympathy toward the plight of young people whose struggles with gender identity make them uncomfortable using gender-specific bathrooms, but it didn't take any action. Vermont passed the Gender Identity Nondiscrimination Act of 2007.