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BROCKTON, Mass., Oct. 13 (UPI) -- School officials said Friday they will probably appeal a lesbian judge's order allowing a 15-year-old boy to wear wigs, tight skirts, padded bras, high heels and other women's clothing to class.
Administrators said the eighth-grader, identified in court documents only as Pat Doe, is disrupting school. But Superior Court Judge Linda Giles ruled the school district was violating the boy's right to freedom of expression. A therapist testified that Doe has a gender identity disorder that makes it medically necessary for him to wear women's clothes, and the judge wrote that his desire to wear female clothing "is not merely a personal preference but a necessary symbol of her very identity."
"I'll be surprised if we don't appeal" the decision, school district attorney Ed Lenox told the Boston Herald.
Giles, who is openly gay, refused to excuse herself from the case before Wednesday's ruling. She said the school has a right to discipline the student for inappropriate behavior, but couldn't punish Doe just because he wears women's clothes.
The boy has been tutored at home since he was barred from attending Brockton's South Junior High School last year.
"We feel this is a disruption to the education process," Brockton School Superintendent Joseph Bage said.
School officials said Doe sometimes wore tight skirts and high-heeled shoes, blew kisses to a male student and once grabbed another boy's buttocks. He was also suspended at least three times for using girls' restrooms.
The Boston Globe said Doe's grandmother sued school officials after they said they would not allow her grandson to enroll last month if he wore women's clothing or accessories.
The judge ruled "that exposing children to diversity at an early age serves the important social goals of increasing their abilities to tolerate differences and teaching them respect for everyone's experience in that 'Brave New World' out there."
Lenox said, however, "The school was extremely reserved and respectful of the individual here, but the school needs to look out for the educational interests of hundreds of students in a given school."
Giles' decision was hailed by Jennifer Levi, the Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders lawyer who represented the boy in court.
"As the first reported decision (in Massachusetts) addressing the rights of a transgender student to express her gender identity in school, it is tremendously important," Levi said. "We know that a large number of transgender students face serious hostility from teachers and administrators."
Outside the school, one mother told the Globe that she had given her 14-year-old son permission to "beat up" Doe if he touched him.