An Oklahoma mother has filed a lawsuit against her teenage daughter’s school district because of a violent incident that happened in the public restroom. While Theresa Gooden’s daughter, identified only as 15-year-old EG, was using the restroom facilities at her school, a transgender student attacked and gave her daughter a “beatdown.” The attack has caused Gooden to file a lawsuit against the school district seeking $75,000 in damages because her teen daughter was both physically and mentally hurt during the restroom attack by the transgender student who was born biologically male.

Gooden explained that her daughter received the “beatdown” from the trans student back in October 2022. Although the school claimed that they did not know the 17-year-old aggressor was biologically male, they did not want to pay Gooden and her daughter $75,000 in damages for the ordeal.

“It’s pretty traumatizing. It wasn’t a regular fight; it was a beatdown,” Gooden told the hosts of Fox & Friends on the Fox News channel.

The transgender student was assigned male at birth. According to current Oklahoma state law, they were forbidden from using the female restroom. The conservative state requires people to use restrooms that match the gender they were assigned on their birth certificate and not the gender they transition to later in life. This law has been wildly criticized by LGBTQ groups and supporters.

While Gooden’s daughter was attacked by a transgender student who should not have been allowed in the girl’s restroom in the first place, Edmond Public Schools Superintendent Angela Grunewald (above) claimed that they had no idea that the aggressor was transgender because the child was listed as female on all school documents in the system.

“In high school, birth certificates are not required to start school. So there was no birth certificate in the (student’s) file at the time to verify one way or another,” Superintendent Grunewald said in a video. “If a parent comes in and enrolls their child as a certain gender, and when you look at that child by all social norms they look and present themselves as that gender, it’s not something that you would question.”

According to the lawsuit, Gooden and her attorney Greg Andrews claim that the victim EG had previously reported threats that the transgender student made against them as well as claiming that the student was biologically male. The aggressor had also been searched for weapons by the police at one point.

“They knew firsthand at that point that there was a chance it was a boy based on what my client’s daughter said,” Andrews told the outlet. “The police report indicates they did have a paternity affidavit on file in the student file that identified the boy as a male. So the school is just lying, and they didn’t comply. I can’t wait until we get discovery in this because it’s clearly going to show that they violated the law.”

Gooden added, “It’s not OK. That was a brutal attack on my daughter because they didn’t follow guidelines. I expect my daughter to be safe at school.”