Cultural, Legal Shifts May Sink Transgender Supreme Court Appeal

May 27, 2021, 8:45 AM UTC

Legal and cultural shifts may give the U.S. Supreme Court reasons to again avoid controversy over transgender students and their use of school bathrooms, five years after dropping plans to hear a Virginia dispute.

That case is back before the justices following more lower court appeals where transgender male Gavin Grimm prevailed over the Gloucester County School Board’s decision denying him use of the boy’s bathroom in accordance with his gender identity.

Grimm’s lawyer says so much has changed since the last time the case reached this point, including the 2020 high court ruling outlawing transgender workplace discrimination, that the ...

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