This is getting some attention today but the actual incident happened back on October 26. That’s when a transgender student entered a girls bathroom at Edmond Memorial High School in Edmond, Oklahoma and got into a fight with two female classmates. Police were called and the information on the case comes from a police report.

The attending officer noted the female victim had “several red areas” on her face, and that both of her eyes were beginning to swell. The officer conducted an interview with the victim, whose full name was redacted due to her age.

The female student advised the officer that a trans-identified student, indicated by the letter A, had approached her in the women’s washroom while she was speaking to friends. She explained that A had tried to talk to her and she had ignored him, at which point A began to get angry and asked if she “wanted to fight” while approaching her with balled fists.

The victim said that the trans-identified student then hit her in the face, and she indicated in her statement that she was not strong enough to fight back due to the force of the blow.

The transgender student pulled the girl’s hair and forced her to the ground, at which point he began to kick her in the face and punch her repeatedly.

…One of the other female students attempted to intervene, and was punched twice on the left side of her face by the assailant.

The trans student claimed this had been a dispute over clothes but his/her parents claimed it was a fight over cyberbullying.

In a statement to the police, the trans-identified student said he tried to talk with the first victim to “pay her back” for clothes he had stolen from her. According to the police report, A’s parents arrived to pick him up after the assault, and the parent claimed that A assaulted the girl for teasing him about identifying as the opposite sex.

A’s parents claim that the victim made “cyberbullying posts” about their child on social media. The police asked the posts be removed to help resolve the conflict. After the assault, A reportedly posted something negative online about the girl who intervened in the fight, but her parents declined to press charges, citing the ones already being pursued.

Fox News reports the dueling posts on Snapchat were put up after the fight. In any case, the trans student has been charged with assault and is no longer attending the school.

The school representative noted the student had only begun attending the school days before the incident and the student’s birth gender was unknown to school administrators at the time…

“Those involved in the fight have received consequences in accordance with both district policy #5540 and state law (Senate Bill 615). The student no longer attends Edmond Memorial High School,” she added.

Oklahoma previously had a policy that allowed students to use the bathroom of their choice but that changed with Senate Bill 615, which took effect in May. The school may be concerned about that because a school that violates the policy can lose out on funding.

SB 615, which took effect on May 25, includes a significant financial sanction for schools that violate the law.

Under the law, schools found to be noncompliant “shall receive a five percent (5%) decrease in state funding for the school district or public charter school for the fiscal year following the year of noncompliance.”

The school’s funding is in excess of $50 million per year so a 5% cut would be nearly $3 million dollars. Apparently it’s well know that this school previously did not enforce the policy but I’m guessing they will now.