‘Genderqueer’ teacher wins $60,000 after threatening federal workplace harassment complaint

‘Genderqueer’ teacher wins $60,000 after threatening federal workplace harassment complaint | EAGnews.org:
"GRESHEM, Ore. – Hall Elementary School transgender teacher Leo Soell will receive a $60,000 payout from the Gresham-Barlow School District for emotional distress tied to alleged harassment by co-workers.
The fifth-grade teacher came out as transgender after a mastectomy for breast cancer early last year. Soell does not identify as male or female, and prefers to be addressed with the pronoun “they.”
...According to the news site:
If kids asked whether Soell was a boy or a girl, district leaders told Soell to respond, “We all have private lives, and it would not be appropriate to talk about our private lives during the school day.”
A district spokeswoman last year said administrators were worried about “age appropriateness.”
Soell, 25, explained they rationale behind they complicated gender to the Portland Tribune last August.
“I identify as transgender.
Specifically, I say transmasculine and genderqueer,” Soell said.
“The genderqueer piece comes from not identifying within the gender binary of male and female – so (I fit in) along the spectrum, I between.”

...Regardless, Soell contends they co-workers were not supportive of they lifestyle, and made her life difficult at work by repeatedly referring to her as “lady,” or using female pronouns. 
Some also allegedly occupied a unisex bathroom on campus to prevent Soell from using the facility, they alleges.
...In a deal hammered out with the help of a federal judge, Gresham-Barlow officials agreed to pay Soell $60,000 for attorney fees and emotional distress, to designate all of Hall Elementary’s staff bathrooms as gender-neutral, and to install gender-neutral bathrooms in all of the district’s schools within the next three years, according to the news site..."