PALATINE, Ill. – An Illinois school board has held its ground in a showdown with the Obama Administration over the issue of a transgender boy using the girls’ locker room.

In a settlement agreement that was accepted by the Township High School District 211 board at a Wednesday night meeting, the student agreed to change and shower in a private area of the locker room, where he can’t be seen by female classmates, according to the Chicago Tribune.

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That mirrors the original offer the school district made to the student – an offer that was deemed discriminatory and unacceptable to the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, which demanded that the student be given full locker room access.

The settlement agreement must still be approved by the DOE, so the controversy may be far from over.

Meanwhile, many angry residents who attended Wednesday’s meeting believe the board is still going too far by allowing the boy any access to the girls’ facility.

Like many others across the nation, they believe a person’s gender is determined by biology, not how they perceive themselves. And they believe the presence of a boy in a girls’ locker room – even in a separate area – is an unfair infringement on the privacy of female students.

“Whether the young man wants to admit or not … he is a man,” one person at the meeting was quoted as saying by the Tribune.

One parent, Jeff Miller, rejected the federal government’s argument that transgender locker room access is a matter of civil rights.

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“I’m not intolerant, and I’m not a bigot,” Miller was quoted as saying. “People have the right in this country to live their lives the way they see fit, and I respect that. When it starts infringing on other people’s rights, that’s when it becomes a problem.

“The difference is in how we define gender. I define it by based on biology, and the other side defines it based on gender identity, which is essential nothing but a belief. This is not a civil rights issue.”

The school district had gone out of its way in the past to accommodate the student, allowing him to use girls’ restrooms and participate in girls’ sports.

But school officials stopped short of giving him full access to the girls’ locker room, instead offering to allow him to shower and change in private. They argued that they had had a responsibility to balance the transgender student’s right to self-identity with the majority’s right to modesty and privacy.

That prompted the transgender student to file a complaint with the DOE’s Office for Civil Rights, which gave the school district 30 days to allow the student full locker room access or face sanctions that could include the loss of about $6 million per year in federal aid.

The school board seemingly defied that order with the settlement it approved on Wednesday.