Transgender students poised to get expanded protections in Arlington

Quincy DuBois often found himself torn between the “shame and self-doubt” of using the women’s restroom at his Northern Virginia school and the startled looks and probing questions he might face if he chose the men’s.

So he would wait — an experience he told the Arlington County School Board is all too common for transgender students such as himself.

“That’s how it feels to be a transgender teenager for a lot of people. Lots of waiting,” the rising senior at Wakefield High School said. “Waiting to come out. Waiting to be accepted by family. Waiting to transition and waiting for their communities to come around and to support them.”

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