(ETH) – A new Netflix series will feature a 9-year-old transgender girl from Texas playing a transgender character in a reboot of the 1990s show “The Baby-Sitters Club” according to a report from Faithwire. According to the report,
The child was born male and named Joseph, where at 5 years old, the young Texas native’s parents insisted their child was actually a transgender girl and should be allowed to use the girls’ bathroom. The plot goes on with Joseph now identifying as a female and goes by the name Kai Shappley.
Faithwire went on to state that: “Shappley’s parents drew attention in 2016 when they got into a legal spat with the Pearland Independent School District, whose officials told the Shappleys their child would need to use the boys’ bathroom, the facilities that matched their child’s biological sex, KRIV-TV reported.”
While authorities with the Pearland ISD did offer Kai use of the gender-neutral restroom, that was not satisfactory to the Shappleys. Ultimately, the family moved closer to Austin, where the parents believed Kai’s desire to use the girls’ bathroom was more likely to be approved. READ MORE
