Ohio school district sues over Obama's transgender directive

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A school district accused of sex-based discrimination against a transgender student is suing President Barack Obama's administration over its directive that public schools let such students use bathrooms and locker rooms matching their gender identity.

Highland Local School District in Morrow County faces an unresolved civil rights complaint about the treatment of an elementary student who is biologically male but identifies as female.

At the request of the student's legal custodian, the district has agreed since 2012 — when the student started first grade — to address her as a female, but it refused a request the following year to let the student use the girls' restroom and has maintained that stance, according to the lawsuit.