On Sept. 20, a California high school crowned 16-year-old Cassidy Lynn Campbell, who was born male, homecoming queen. The same week, some 2,500 miles away in Pennsylvania, school administrators told Kasey Caron, 17, that he could not run for homecoming king because he was born female. The two tales are a reminder that there is no consensus on whether to sanction a growing number of students seeking to participate in school activities that reflect their self-identified gender instead of their biological sex. Some states, including California and Massachusetts, explicitly protect transgender students from discrimination. But there is confusion over the extent...
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