Transgender 1st-grader banned from using girls' restroom

In this, Feb. 25, 2013, photo, Coy Mathis sits with a book at her home in Fountain, Colo. Coy has been diagnosed with Gender Identity Disorder. Biologically, Coy, 6, is a boy, but to her parents, three sisters and brother, other family members and the world, Coy is a transgender girl.

Coy's family is locked in a legal battle with the school district in Fountain, a town 82 miles south of Denver, over where Coy, 6, should go to use the bathroom - the girls' or, as school officials suggest, one in the teachers' lounge or another in the nurse's office. Her parents say using anything other than the girls' bathroom could stigmatize her, and open her up to bullying.

Credit: AP Photo/Brennan Linsley