Biden Officials to Back Trans Student in Florida Bathroom Fight

A Florida high school’s policy that barred a transgender student from using the boys’ bathroom violated federal law because he was a boy “socially, physically, medically, and on legal documents,” the Justice Department will argue Tuesday.

The St. John’s County School Board’s policy restricting bathroom use by “biological sex” is only valid under the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution if it serves an important governmental interest, the DOJ said in a brief in advance of oral argument before the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

A divided three-judge panel of the court twice affirmed a ...