Transgender policy at Vancouver Catholic schools

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Tracey Wilson, 11, stands for a photograph in Vancouver, B.C., on Wednesday July 16, 2014. The Catholic Independent Schools of Vancouver Archdiocese has approved a transgender student policy after Wilson and her family filed a human rights complaint after she was diagnosed with gender dysphoria and her request to be treated as a girl couldn't be accommodated. She has since switched to the public school system. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

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By James Keller, The Canadian Press

VANCOUVER - Catholic schools in Vancouver have adopted a policy that could allow transgender students to use the pronouns, uniforms and washrooms that match their gender identity after a human rights complaint forced the local archdiocese to balance its religious teachings with the rights of transgender children.

The lawyer for the 11-year-old transgender girl behind the complaint says Catholic Independent Schools of the Vancouver Archdiocese appears to be the first Catholic school board in North American to implement such a policy.

Tracey Wilson's doctors determined she had gender dysphoria, but the Catholic school she attended indicated it could not accommodate her request to be treated as a girl.

Wilson's family moved Tracey and her siblings to the public school system and filed a human rights complaint, which has now been resolved with the school board's new policy.

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