BREAST TOUCHING After Consent Sex is Assault Claimed Transitioning Trans Male: MSU Settled
For more than two years, the parents of a male undergraduate student had waged an expensive legal battle to clear their son’s disciplinary record at Michigan State University. He’d been found in violation of the university’s sexual misconduct policy for touching his on-and-off girlfriend’s breast in the hours after the couple had sex. For that, the student had been put on “indefinite” probation, restricted in visiting the campus after graduation, and endured the stigma of a sexual misconduct violation on his record ‒ a blot that threatened his ability to get a job after leaving school. It was not until February of this year, after being threatened with a lawsuit, that MSU quietly agreed to clear the student’s record. Most of the facts are not in dispute. A few hours after having sex, “Nathan” reached under her blouse and attempted to touch her breast. When he was rebuked, he removed his hand immediately. Both students agree that’s what happened. To the female student, however, the incident represented an intimate touching without explicit consent – a betrayal, and potential violation of MSU sexual misconduct policy. 15 months later the female student complained to MSU about the breast touch after sex. By that time, the female student was transitioning to become a man, and expressing fear of confronting the male she (now he) had sex with… Per the settlement agreement with the falsely accused heterosexual male. Michigan State University expunged the male’s disciplinary record, and reimbursed him $10,000 in legal fees – a fraction of what the student’s parents said they paid. There is no record of the disciplinary action on his academic record. And this is as it should be for this innocent young male.
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