A huge controversy has blown up in the Deerfield Public Schools District 109 in Illinois as some school officials and teachers made junior high school girls change their clothes in front of a biological male who identifies as a trans girl. A mom named Nicode Georgas discussed it during a school board meeting on March 14, 2025. Now, people are divided about kids’ privacy, how schools handle who’s what gender, and if anyone broke any laws.
Since then, Nicole has gone to the Department of Justice and the Department of Education, saying the school didn’t respect her daughter’s rights. At the meeting, which was being shown live on the internet and then shared everywhere by Reduxx, a news outlet that often talks about such divisive issues, she said, “The girls just want their privacy, and they want their locker room back.”
Georgas says her daughter first met this boy in the girls’ bathroom on February 5, 2025. When she talked to the school about it, they told her that the district’s lawyers had said kids could use whatever bathroom matched how they felt about their gender. Instead of fixing the problem, the school’s idea was to have her daughter switch gym classes to steer clear of the boy. “They refused to prioritize girls’ rights over this policy,” she said, pretty upset.
Then, at a school board meeting, things got crazy. Someone in the crowd called Georgas out for supposedly checking out kids’ private parts. And another person with a shirt that said “Protect Trans Kids” basically said she was pushing some “white supremacist propaganda.” This situation just made the topic even more explosive.
Anti-Trump protesters are holding “protect trans kids” posters outside the White House. It appears that some on the Left may not realize that child mutilation is highly unpopular in the United States of America. pic.twitter.com/W2VAhQJFMr
— Loomer Unleashed (@LoomerUnleashed) March 1, 2025
The Illinois Department of Human Rights folks are backing the school district on this one. They’ve clarified that just because someone else might feel “discomfort or privacy concerns of other students, teachers, or parents are not valid reasons to deny or limit the full and equal use of facilities based on a student’s gender-related identity.” This situation affects not only the students but also teachers and parents. The district hasn’t talked to the media about whether this is a strict rule, a choice made by the school board, or something the school officials decided to do.
All this fuss shows a more considerable argument about how schools should handle letting students be who they are, especially when using bathrooms and locker rooms, and how it fits with what parents want and the need for everyone’s privacy.
This situation has gotten many people talking nationwide, with big names like J.K. Rowling and ex-Olympian Jennifer Sey sharing their opinions.
J.K. Rowling posted on her social media, “I’d remove my daughter instantly from that school, then go full Nemesis.”
I’d remove my daughter instantly from that school, then go full Nemesis. https://t.co/3FdZzj3gXh
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) March 17, 2025
She was even more straightforward, claiming the school committed “several crimes, including sexual assault and false imprisonment.” She’s calling for those in charge to face the music, saying, “These school officials need to be prosecuted.”
And it’s not just them; even a politician from the other side, Blaine Wilhour from the Illinois GOP, is speaking out. He’s pointing fingers at the state’s Democratic Governor, J.B. Pritzker, saying he’s doing some “dangerous, disgusting cheerleading.”
This situation has stirred the ongoing discussion about how schools handle gender identity. There have been a bunch of fights in courts all over the country about whether to tell parents about these issues, who can play on what sports team, and who gets to use which bathroom.
The Department of Education, Department of Agriculture, and Department of Health and Human Services have all started investigating how schools are following Title IX rules, which shows that the government is taking this seriously.
Biden has changed sex based protections for women by altering Title IX protections and allowing biological men the same rights as women.
The new Title IX regulation, issued by the Education Department, changes the definition of sex discrimination to include both sexual… pic.twitter.com/iIiHUIbE0H
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) April 19, 2024
With more and more lawsuits on the way, what happens in Deerfield could end up being a model for other schools to follow when they’re trying to balance the rights of kids who are figuring out their gender identity, worried parents, and the need for everyone’s privacy.
