The 17-year-old needed jaw surgery after the incident, according to the family.
Cobalt Sovereign, a nonbinary and transgender 17-year-old, was the victim of an assault in a Minnesota high school. The incident is under investigation by local police as a potential hate crime.A transgender student is speaking out along with their family after allegedly being assaulted while using the bathroom in their Minnetonka, Minnesota, high school.Cobalt Sovereign, 17, told ABC News they were using the men's bathroom around 2:30 p.m.
In the hallway, Sovereign said they were followed by the student and two others. Out of the blue, they said, one of the students punched Sovereign."The moment after I was hit, there were pieces of tooth in my mouth. Sovereign went to their school's wellness center to speak to a counselor, who noticed that "there was blood dripping down my teeth," Sovereign said.
Ashley Sovereign, Cobalt's mother, also noted that Cobalt said they used the bathroom that aligns with their sex assigned at birth because the gender neutral bathrooms were too far away. Cobalt Sovereign, left, a nonbinary and transgender 17-year-old, was the victim of an assault in a Minnesota high school. The incident is under investigation by local police as a potential hate crime.The Hopkins Public Schools district confirmed the investigation, adding that “Hopkins Public Schools is an inclusive community that values diversity and inclusion. We will address any issues that compromise the safety and inclusivity of our school environment.
"As much as support is increasing, hate and the cruelty toward transgender people and even just gay people, is increasing in just an astonishing way that I didn't expect to see," said Sovereign."One of the things we want to come out of it is just an awareness of how difficult it is for trans kids to just exist in school," said Ashley Sovereign. "She's just trying to go to the bathroom. Getting through the day is hard. It doesn't need to be any harder.
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