The Massapequa school district has filed a federal lawsuit against New York’s education commissioner and other top state officials, as well as a pair of district parents, asking the court to uphold the district’s policy on restricting transgender students' access to bathrooms and locker rooms that align with their gender identities.

The district’s lawsuit, filed Tuesday in the Eastern District of New York, names as defendants the state’s education commissioner Betty Rosa, its human rights commissioner Denise Miranda and its attorney general Letitia James, along with parents identified in legal papers as Jane and John Doe, whose transgender child attends a district school.

Rosa has “usurped” the school board’s policy-making authority and forced the district “to allow biological males to e

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