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15-year-old Adreya Harden was tired of the incessant bullying she faced at school after coming out as transgender three years prior.
The lawsuit presented 12 counts revolving around discrimination under the Fourteenth Amendment’s equal protection clauses, violations under Title IX, deliberate indifference to the bullying, intentional infliction of emotional distress and gross negligence. The lawsuit says Adreya’s suicide could have been prevented had the district fulfilled its duties.
At the onset of the COVID pandemic, that option was not available, however. Adreya had to attend public school once more. After Adreya died, the director of the cosmetology program said they were not informed she wanted to be part of the program but would have allowed her to enroll had they known. Eventually, Adreya begged her mother not to send her back to the tech school, before she killed herself by intentionally overdosing on her medication. Although she never left a note, she changed her Instagram status to “deceased” the night before.
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