EVANSVILLE, Ind.  — A federal judge has found that the Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation violated a transgender student’s civil rights by not allowing him to use male bathrooms at school.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana sued last year after the teenager was told to use the female bathroom or bathrooms in the nurse’s office and was told he would face discipline for using men’s bathrooms without permission.

But a judge ruled Friday the district’s actions violated the student’s Fourteenth Amendment civil rights protections.

The district’s attorney says it respectfully disagrees with the ruling.