COLUMBUS, Ohio – A federal judge appointed by President Bill Clinton ruled on Monday that an Ohio school district must force students to share restroom facilities with transgender classmates of the opposite sex.

Highland Local Schools challenged a decree issued by President Obama to schools this spring that threatened to withhold federal funds for schools that segregate restroom and locker room facilities based on biological sex.

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Obama asserts that federal Title IX anti discrimination laws protect transgender students’ “right” to use whatever facilities they “identify” with, but that interpretation is currently mired in numerous legal challenges, including the Highland case.

The Highland case centers on an 11-year-old child who was born a boy but “identifies” as a girl and wants to use the girl’s restroom. The school district blocked the student, referred to in court documents as Jane Doe, from using the female facilities because officials contend it will violate student privacy and pose a safety risk, the Associated Press reports.

Judge Algenon Marbley disagreed with the district and backed President Obama.

“(S)chool districts that have encountered these very issues have been able to integrate transgender students fully into the academic and social community without disruption, and certainly without the doomsday scenarios Highland predicts, such as sexual predators entering an elementary-school restroom,” Marbley wrote in his opinion, adding that there’s “certainly no evidence” that students could face harm by forcing them to share facilities with transgender students.

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Marbley, who was nominated and officially commissioned by President Clinton in 1997, must not be aware of a Minnesota lawsuit filed in early September over Obama’s transgender decree that paints a bleak picture of how fast things can spiral out of control.

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The lawsuit, brought by the Alliance Defending Freedom on behalf of 11 families in Virginia, Minnesota, focuses on a biologically male transgender student who gained access to the girls locker room, where he allegedly engaged in sexually suggestive behavior that brought female students to tears, the Mesabi Daily News reports.

Students told the courts and the media that their transgender classmate asked girls about their bra size and offered to “trade body parts,” engaged in sexually suggestive twerking and grinding to music with lewd lyrics, and flashed his female classmates by lifting his dress while putting on a show, according to the news site.

“The school was very unsympathetic,” ADF attorney Matt Sharp told Fox News. “This is showing what we have been warning for months now. When you strip away student privacy, there’s going to be consequences for that.”

Regardless, Marbley ruled that Highland schools must allow access and must also use a female name and pronoun when speaking to the complaining student, Cleveland.com reports.

A federal judge in Texas last month imposed a nationwide injunction against enforcement of Obama’s transgender decree until a lawsuit challenging the president’s interpretation brought by a dozen states makes its way through the legal system.

“However, Marbley said because Ohio wasn’t a party to that lawsuit and because Highland’s lawsuit began before its decision the Texas court’s action doesn’t apply in this case,” the Associated Press reports.