The U.S. Supreme Court refused to question the rights of transgender students to use school bathrooms that correspond with their gender identity, rejecting an appeal by a Virginia school board in a long-running civil rights battle.
The rebuff seals a legal victory for Gavin Grimm, who was a high school student in 2014 when the Gloucester County School Board barred him from continuing to use the boys’ bathrooms. A federal appeals court said the board violated Grimm’s rights under a federal civil rights law and the Constitution’s equal protection clause.
In turning away the appeal, the justices declined to take ...
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