America 2011: School officials said murdered crossdressing boy had right to explore sexuality and proposition other boys?

LA Times: In plea deal, youth gets 21 years for killing gay teen
McInerney shot King in a school computer lab at E.O Green Junior High in Oxnard in February 2008, after days of conflict between the boys. Students and teachers at the trial testified that King had been dressing in women’s accessories and wearing makeup, and was flirting aggressively with male students on campus who did not want the attention . . . She [the murdered boy's mother] said she was told that her son had a civil right to explore his sexual identity.