CNN.com - Teen lesbian sues school for bias

A 15-year-old female student who says she was banned from gym class at school because she is a lesbian filed a lawsuit Tuesday against her instructors and the school district, accusing them of discrimination.

Ashly Massey and her mother, along with the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Center for Lesbian Rights, filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles.

They claim that in March, when Ashly was an 8th grade student at Coombs Middle School in Riverside County, she was removed from physical education class and made to sit in the school principal's office.