Duronslet

ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND DENYING IN PART DEFENDANT’S MOTION TO DISMISS [7]

I. INTRODUCTION

Plaintiff Genevieve Duronslet is a transgender minor who is biologically male but who identifies as female. (Compl. ¶¶ 1, 13, ECF No. 1-2.) In October 2015, the Los Angeles County Department of Child and Family Services (“DCFS”) detained Plaintiff in connection with a juvenile dependency case. (Id, ¶ 13.)' During her detention, DCFS personnel allegedly forced Plaintiff to use male restroom facilities and to sleep on the “boy’s side” of the DCFS Welcome Center, even though they “knew or should have known” that Plaintiff identified as female. (Id. ¶¶ 9, 10, 13.) Plaintiff alleges that DCFS staff were acting pursuant to an official policy or practice that treats-transgender detainees according to their birth-assigned gender rather than their gender identity. (See id. ¶¶ 24-25.) Plaintiff subsequently filed suit against Defendant County of Los Angeles, alleging: (1) violation of the California Unruh Civil Rights Act; (2) intentional infliction of emotional distress; (3) violation of the federal Due Process Clause; and (4) violation of the federal Equal Protection Clause. (ECF No. 1-2.) The…