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“Excluding them from sports sends a terrible message that they are not worthy of being treated the same as cisgender teammates and classmates,” she said.

In a statement read to the court, the victim said he had been "embarrassed" in front of his classmates.

The boy is an excellent student; while his classmates dread going to school, he dreads his plantain-lugging weekends.

More than 400 of his classmates at William & Mary Law School signed a petition declaring him “unfit to write or determine the law.”

“Some students arrived at school truly upset & even crying only to be bullied later by their classmates,” she added.