At a meeting with officials from the East Penn school district, ninth grader Sigourney Coyle spoke out against the prospect of having to share changing facilities with transgender students during gym class.

She argued that because she wouldn't feel comfortable changing in front of a transgender indidvidual, she wouldn't be able to participate in gym, which would cause her to fail high school.

Though Coyle doesn't have any transgender classmates to speak of, she considered her speech a preemptive strike aimed at protecting her rights as a female-identifying student at Emmaus High School.

In her address to the school board, Coyle said: "You can't make a transgender change in front of someone they don't identify with. But if you put my name in there...you can't make me change in front of someone who I don't identify with who is physically male."

"Gym requires us to participate in order to pass high school," she continued. "If I don't change, I'm not allowed to participate. So my options are let myself be discriminated against, or fail gym for not participating and not pass through high school, which would jeopardize my future."

She concluded: "I feel nothing against transgenders. I know some, and I don't have anything wrong with them. I just would not like their rights to overrule my own."

District officials elected to allow Sigourney to take her gym classes during the summer, but her mother believes this solution is nothing but a "band-aid."

In an interview with the Morning Call after the meeting, Aryn stated that even as “transgender students are going through a difficult time, and deserve some sort of special accommodations for their situation, this is not the correct accommodation.”

Both mother and daughter have been fighting against trans inclusion in school restrooms and changing facilities ever since President Barack Obama announced last May that transgender students have the right to use whatever bathroom aligns with their gender identity.

In a Facebook post written just days after the president's announcement, Aryn wrote: "I will not stand by while the law dictates that male bodies are allowed to walk into my daughter's locker room, undress next to her, and shower alongside of her."

"I will be proud of that failing grade in gym, and so would any Christian college."

h/t: Planet Transgender