Transgender nursing student threatened with charges and expulsion if she keeps using the women's bathroom

A transgender nursing student has said she was threatened with charges and expulsion from her course if she continues to use the women's restroom.

Alex Wilson, who has been undergoing hormone therapy for four years, said she has been forced to use facilities in a maintenance building at Pinellas Technical Education Center in Clearwater, Florida instead.

'It's not right,' she told WFLA , becoming emotional. 'And the fact that I would have to continue to use that restroom for the continuation of my education - that's not right.'

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Anger: Alex Wilson, a transgender nursing student in Clearwater, Florida, has said that her school has told her she can no longer use the female restrooms after a fellow student complained

Wilson is a certified nursing assistant and is aiming to become a licensed practical nurse through the classes - but now she fears the attitude of the school will get in the way of her dream.

She has been using the female restroom on the campus for the duration of her studies, but last week, a fellow student complained to the administration about Wilson using it.

She said that she was taken out from her class and staff told her that if she uses the female restroom again, she faces charges, which would subsequently force her to drop out of the course.

In what she calls a degrading move, she must now use a private bathroom in 'a storage part of the administration building', where cleaning supplies are kept.



Kicked out: She was told that she will face charges if she uses the women's restroom in her building, pictured

Shunned: Instead she must use a bathroom in this maintenance building which is used for storage

Wilson added that she had not been offered to use the male bathroom - but even if she had, she would have refused.

A school spokesperson told WFLA that they will be looking into the case to determine what happened.



In this scenario, 'a person will be offered access to a private restroom,' the spokesperson said. 'And that's for the individual's privacy and for the privacy of other students.'

In a similar case that concluded last month, the parents of six-year-old Coy Mathis won a battle to allow her to use the girls' bathroom at her school in Fountain, Colorado.

Breakthrough: In a similar case last month, six-year-old Coy Mathis won a battle with her school to be able to use the girls' restrooms at her school in Fountain, Colorado

Coy, who was born male but has identified as female since the age of four, had been barred from using the girls' restroom at Eagleside Elementary School in December.

'Schools should not discriminate against their students, and we are thrilled that Coy can return to school and put this behind her,' Kathryn Mathis, Coy's mother, said in a statement.

'All we ever wanted was for Coy's school to treat her the same as other little girls. We are extremely happy that she now will be treated equally.'



Wilson intends to undergo gender assignment surgery when she can afford it and also looks forward to changing her name, she said.

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