Giving Compass' Take:

· According to Governing Magazine, a transgender student in Oregon was supported by U.S. District Judge Marco Hernandez to use school facilities that align with his gender identity. 

· What does this ruling mean for similar cases? 

· Read more about the fight for transgender rights in the US.

A federal judge in Portland has ruled that allowing a transgender high school student in a small Oregon school district to use the boys' locker room and restrooms doesn't violate the privacy rights of other students who object to sharing the spaces.

U.S. District Judge Marco Hernandez on Tuesday threw out a lawsuit filed by Parents for Privacy against the Dallas School District. Hernandez said transgender students have a right to use restrooms and locker rooms that correspond with their gender identity.

And if the parents of other students -- some of them devout Christians -- don't like that, they're free to pull their children from the school, the judge said.

"It is within (their) right to remove their children from Dallas High School if they disapprove of transgender student access to facilities," Hernandez wrote in a 56-page opinion. Dallas is 15 miles west of Salem.

Read the full article about a transgender student's battle to use the bathroom by Aimee Green at Governing Magazine.