Furious Colorado parents claim their 11-year-old daughter was made to sleep in a bed with a biological boy who identified as TRANSGENDER child on overnight school trip

• The girl only found out about her bedmate’s transgender identity when they told her in their hotel room
• School board policy is that ‘under no circumstances’ shall a transgender student be required to share a room with those of their original gender 
• But angry parents are demanding the right to know the gender of their children’s bedmates

An 11-year-old Colorado girl called her mother in a panic from a hotel bathroom after discovering that the girl she was expected to share a bed with on a school trip was actually a biological male.

No-one had told the girl, the mother or any other parent at Governor’s Ranch Elementary School because the transgender pupil was in ‘stealth mode’ with their sexual identity protected by school board policy.

Mom Serena Wailes said her daughter had to repeatedly ask for a different room, and was then told to lie about the reason she was going in order to protect her bedmate’s privacy.

The family from Littleton are now demanding the school board ensure that parents are told in advance the gender of people their children will be expected to share a bed with.

‘Her bedmate informed her that he was a boy who identified as transgender,’ Wailes told Fox31.

Parents Joe and Serena Wailes’s daughter was made to sleep in a bed with a biological boy during a Governor’s Ranch Elementary School field trip

‘She actually got along really well with the other student, but just felt uncomfortable with the idea of being in bed with a biological boy,’ Serena said

‘She was terrified and really upset about the idea of sharing a bed with a biological boy, even though she had a good relationship with this other student.’

Jefferson County Public Schools (Jeffco) rules insist that ‘under no circumstances’ shall a transgender student be required to share a room with children ‘whose gender identity conflicts with their own’.

But the case has been taken up by attorneys at the Alliance for Defending Freedom (ADF) who want parents given the choice to opt out if room mates are chosen by gender identity rather than biological sex.

‘Schools should never hide information from parents, yet that’s exactly what JCPS officials did her,’ said ADF senior counsel Kate Anderson.

‘Every parent should have the information needed to make the best decision for their children.’

Wailes was accompanying her daughter on the trip in June to the nation’s capital and was repeatedly assured that the boys’ rooms would be on a different floor to the girls’ and that permission would be needed to travel between them.

But she demanded to see a chaperone in the hotel lobby after receiving the whispered phone call from her daughter.

‘The school chaperone asked the Waileses’ daughter if they could merely move her to a different bed rather than a different room,’ reported the ADF in a letter to Jeffco superintendent Tracy Dorman.

‘While she was still uncomfortable with this arrangement, she agreed to try it for one night.

‘Jeffco officials then decided to lie to her roommates, and instructed the Waileses’ daughter to do the same, telling her to say she needed to switch beds to be closer to the air conditioner.

‘It then took the girl and her parents multiple requests to get her moved to another room.

‘And even then, chaperones told the girl to lie about the reason for her move because of the district’s overnight rooming policy— a policy that violates parental rights and student privacy by rooming students based on gender identity while hiding that information from other parents and students.’ 

The family from Littleton are now demanding the school (pictured) tell parents in advance the gender of people their children will be expected to share a bed with

The ADF has written to JCPS Superintendent Tracy Dorman claiming the policy violates parental rights and is unconstitutional 

The ADF claims that the other girls in the room were not informed about the biological male in their room, and were ordered to keep quiet about it when they found out.

Jeffco policy on transgender room accommodations states that, when it comes to sleeping arrangements, the needs of a transgender student will be assessed on a ‘case-by-case basis with the goals of maximizing the student’s social integration, providing equal opportunity and minimizing stigmatization of the student’.

‘In most cases, students who are transgender should be assigned to share overnight accommodations with other students that share the student’s gender identity consistently asserted at school,’ it adds

‘Any alternative arrangement should be provided in a way that allows the student’s transgender status to be kept confidential.’

Dailymail.com has reached out to Jeffco for comment.

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