A six-year-old transgender girl has won the right to use the girls restroom at her school in Colorado. The decision was made by the Colorado Civil Rights Division on Sunday that the Fountain-Fort Carson School District created an unnecessarily hostile situation for Coy Mathis by not allowing her to use the female bathroom. Transgender advocates are hailing the decision as a major step forward for transgender rights. By not allowing Coy to use the girls' restroom, the Eagleside Elementary School in Fountain 'creates an environment rife with harassment,' Steven Chavez, the division director, wrote in the decision. Winner: The Colorado Civil Rights Division has ruled in favor of six-year-old Coy Mathis, whose school had barred her from using the girls bathroom at her elementary school because she is transgender
@highlight
A Colorado transgender girl, Coy Mathis, 6,  has won the right to use the female restrooms at her elementary school in a civil rights case
@highlight
Transgender advocates are hailing the win as a 'victory for fairness'
@highlight
Coy Mathis was being home-schooled pending the decision and will now return to school at Eagleside Elementary in Fountain
'It is a victory for @placeholder and a triumph for fairness.'