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Court backs Baptist college that expelled trans student for lying on application

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English: The 100,000 square-foot Yeager Center is the hub of the CBU campus and features classrooms, offices, stores, restaurants and key student service departments including admissions, financial aid and career services. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) A California court has  sided with  a Baptist college that was  sued for discrimination after expelling a cross-dressing male nursing student who lied on his application and said he was a female.   The school discovered Domaine Javier’s deception after he appeared on an episode of MTV ’s “ True Life ” reality show called “I’m Passing as Someone I’m Not,” in which he revealed that he was only pretending to be female. Javier sued California Baptist University for $500,000 in damages after the school expelled him for fraud, arguing that his expulsion was a violation of California’s civil rights act, which explicitly forbids discrimination based on “gender, gender identity and gender expression.” On Friday, Superior Court