Unfortunately I'm rated as the worst lawyer at our law office so I get the cases no one else wants. So when a distinguished gentleman and what must be his very cute daughter are shown into my office I wonder what the catch is. Oh, a discrimination case. Well, that explains it. Not what we usually deal with at Cook, Brewster & Yorke.

The father, an old customer of ours, lets his daughter explain the problem.

“I recently transferred to Whetstone Academy, what used to be Whetstone Academy for Boys. I soon realized that the cheerleaders are the one with the highest status. The most popular boys only date cheerleaders. Cheerleaders get the best places in the cafeteria. Cheerleaders can ignore the dress code and flaunt their sexy legs. Cheerleaders get to wear those cute uniforms with the short skirts. Cheerleaders get to pick the most popular courses first. Cheerleaders get the best of everything! So of course I wanted to try out.

They won’t let me! It would be against their traditions they say.

I’m cute. I’m sexy. I’m a great cheerleader. I was the head cheerleader in my old school. I deserve to be a cheerleader and part of the popular set! They have no right to deny me that only because of my birth sex!”

I look at “her”. Why didn’t he tell me from the beginning he’s one of those “transgendered”? I hate to admit it but he really is very cute (just thinking about makes me a little bit nauseous). No one could suspect that he isn’t a real girl. I sigh. I hate to deal with cases involving weirdoes. I start to explain to him that taking this to court would place him in a very difficult position. Even if we probably could get a court order so he could try out to be a cheerleader he would be outed as transgendered and experience lots of harassment, not to talk about the resentment the other students would feel.

“But you don’t understand! I’m a genetic girl. It’s because I wasn’t born with a penis between my legs they won’t let me try out!"