A transgender teenager is lending his voice to a movement in Vermont to require the state’s middle and high schools to offer genderless bathrooms. Kyle Giard-Chase, 16, asked the Vermont Human Rights Commission on Thursday to endorse the effort. He said that before he came out last year as transgendered, he was a three-sport athlete and the co-captain of the field hockey team, a girls’ sport, at South Burlington High School. At an away game, he said he was verbally harassed and threatened by the members of the host school’s football team for using the girls’ restroom. “The harassment only stopped when I was reduced to tears and told them I was in fact a female,” said Kyle, now a senior.

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