Transgender Student’s Bathroom-Use Win Upheld in Revised Opinion

A Florida school district’s policy restricting the bathroom choices of a transgender high school student was based on arbitrary rationales and was properly blocked by a lower court because it violated equal protection law, a divided Eleventh Circuit ruled Wednesday.

The School Board of St. John’s County’s student bathroom-use policy provided that girls must use the girls’ bathroom and boys must use the boys’ bathroom. When female students complained that Drew Adams, a transgender male student, was using the boys’ room, the school board told him he could either use the girls’ room or a single-stall restroom in the school’s ...