From LGBTQ Nation: http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2013/02/expelled-transgender-student-sues-california-baptist-university/
Staff Reports
Thursday, February 28, 2013
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — A transgender woman has filed a lawsuit after she was expelled from a Christian university after she revealed in an episode of MTV’s “True Life” that she is biologically male.
Domaine Javier, 25, who was expelled from the California Baptist University in Riverside, Calif., in August 2011, filed her lawsuit on Monday, and accused the school of violating state anti-discrimination laws and breach of contract.
Javier is seeking $500,000 in damages.
In court documents, Javier attached a letter stating that she was expelled “because of fraud or concealing identity.” She also alleges that a university official informed her that she “inaccurately stated on her university application that she is a female.”
In an October 2011 interview with The Press-Enterprise, Javier said she has identified as female since she was a toddler.
“I didn’t do anything wrong,” Javier said. “They said, ‘On your application form you put female.’ And I was like, ‘Yeah, that’s how I see myself.’”
She told the paper in that same interview that Cal Baptist officials told her they discovered her appearance on an MTV “True Life” episode titled, “I’m Passing as Someone I’m Not,” while conducting a background check on her.
Portland, Ore.-based civil rights attorney Paul Southwick, who is representing Javier, said that the university has maligned his client’s reputation.
“They’ve falsely accused her of fraud and of concealing her identity,” he said. “She was humiliated and forced to delay her education and career.”
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See Also: Huffington Post: Domaine Javier, Transgender Student, Sues University That Expelled Her For ‘Fraud’
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