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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

Cross-dressing student stings then sues Baptist university after being expelled for lying about his sex

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RIVERSIDE, CA , March 12, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews ) – A 24-year-old man who has been living as a woman has sued California Baptist University for $500,000 in damages after the school  expelled  him for lying on his application paperwork.  Domaine Javier applied to Cal Baptist ’s nursing program in 2011 as a transfer from Riverside City College .  When asked to check a box indicating whether he was male or female on the school’s admission application, he marked ‘female’ despite the fact that he is biologically male and only dresses as a woman. “I didn’t do anything wrong,” Javier told The Press-Enterprise during an interview in 2011. “They said, ‘On your application form you put female.’ And I was like, ‘Yeah, that’s how I see myself.’” Cal Baptist discovered Javier’s deception after he appeared on an episode of MTV ’s “ True Life ” reality show, where he revealed that he was only pretending to be female.  The episode in question was called “I’m Passing as Someone I’m Not.”