WASHINGTON, D.C. – A California school district has agreed to a number of orders issued by the federal Department of Education, including allowing a transgendered boy to use bathrooms designated for females.

According to the Department, “The complaint alleged that the District discriminated against a transgender student by failing to respond adequately to complaints that the student was subjected to verbal harassment by peers and that staff at the student’s school disciplined her for wearing make-up, discouraged her from speaking about her gender identity with classmates and suggested that she transfer to another school.”

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The order, published by the department, includes a string of policy changes and accommodations, such as:

* Engage a consultant with expertise on child and adolescent gender identity, including experience with discrimination against gender nonconforming and transgender students, to support and assist the District with implementing the provisions of the agreement;

* Work with its consultant to ensure a school climate free of harassment by incorporating age-appropriate information for students on gender identity, gender-based discrimination and harassment;

* Continue to treat the student the same as other female students in all respects in the education programs and activities offered by the District, including access to sex-designated facilities for female students;

* Notify the student and the complainant that they may request that the District develop a Student Success Plan to ensure the student has equal access and opportunity to participate in all programs and activities, and is otherwise protected from gender-based discrimination at school;

* Ensure that the student is not disciplined for acting or appearing in a manner that does not conform to stereotypical notions of masculinity or femininity;

* Remove all discipline imposed on the student during the 2011˗12 school year from the student’s records;

The department’s “Office of Civil Rights’ promises it will “closely monitor” how the district operates going forward.

“Our federal civil rights laws protect all students from sex-based discrimination and harassment,” said Catherine E. Lhamon, assistant secretary for civil rights, according to the release.

“I commend the Downey Unified School District for entering into this agreement to ensure that each of its students, including transgender students and students who do not conform to stereotyped notions of masculinity or femininity, can learn in a safe, educational environment.”

The Washington Post reports Downey isn’t the only district the OCR is pushing around.

The department is “investigating three complaints filed on behalf of African American parents in New Orleans, Chicago and Newark alleging racial discrimination in the closing of scores of neighborhood public schools in those three cities,” according to the paper.

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School districts in those communities have been closing failing government schools and converting them into charter schools that are typically managed by private companies.