Supreme Court won t revive school s transgender bathroom ban
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WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a Virginia school board s appeal to reinstate its transgender bathroom ban, handing a victory to transgender rights groups and a former high school student who fought in court for six years to overturn the ban.
After learning that the high court refused to hear the board s appeal, Gavin Grimm, now 22, said that his long battle is over. “We won,” he tweeted. “Honored to have been part of this victory,” he added.
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WASHINGTON: The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a major transgender rights case, leaving in place a lower court s ruling that a Virginia public school board acted unlawfully in preventing a transgender student from using a bathroom at his high school that corresponded with his gender identity. The justices opted not to hear the Gloucester County School Board s appeal of a 2020 ruling by the Richmond-based 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals that transgender student Gavin Grimm is protected under the federal law that bars sex discrimination in education, known as Title IX, and the US Constitution s requirement that people be treated equally under the law. The 4th Circuit ruling does not set a national legal precedent.
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The Supreme Court declined to hear a case about whether a transgender student from Virginia could use the bathroom that aligned with his gender identity. The decision upholds a 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that found the school board discriminated against the student by forcing him to use a unisex bathroom instead of the men s room.
The case began in 2015 when
Gavin Grimm filed a lawsuit claiming the school s decision violated Title IX, which prohibits discrimination based on sex. The Supreme Court agreed to take up the case in 2016 but kicked it back to the lower courts in 2017 because the Trump Administration rescinded a policy advising schools not to discriminate based on gender identity.
Jun 28, 2021 1:55 PM EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a Virginia school board’s appeal to reinstate its transgender bathroom ban.
Over two dissenting votes, the justices left in place lower court rulings that found the policy unconstitutional. The case involved former high school student Gavin Grimm, who filed a federal lawsuit after he was told he could not use the boys bathroom at his public high school. Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas voted to hear the board’s appeal.
The Gloucester County, Virginia, school board’s policy required Grimm to use restrooms that corresponded with his biological sex female or private bathrooms.