Transgender teen hospitalized after alleged attack in high school bathroom
A transgender girl was hospitalized and left with a broken jaw after allegedly being attacked by one of her classmates at a Minnesota high school.
A transgender girl was hospitalized and left with a broken jaw after allegedly being attacked by one of her classmates at a Minnesota high school.
Cobalt Sovereign, 17, told NBC affiliate KARE 11 this week that she was assaulted on May 30 by a male student while leaving the men’s bathroom at Hopkins High School in Minnetonka, a city about 15 miles west of Minneapolis. Sovereign said she was hospitalized for two days and had to have her jaw repaired.
“I was hit in the jaw and at the time one of my teeth exploded, pieces in my mouth,” Sovereign told KARE 11. “My jaw was broken in two places.”
Sovereign said that the male student called her homophobic slurs before hitting her.
“In the bathroom, he had looked over the stall directly where I was attempting to use the bathroom, and that is where he initially called me a f----- in the first place,” Sovereign said.
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