US Supreme Court Passes on Transgender Student Bathroom Dispute

The US Supreme Court rejected an Indiana school district’s fight to stop a transgender student from using the bathroom that’s consistent with his gender identity.

The justices on Tuesday refused to review an order from the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit that blocked the Metropolitan School District of Martinsville from excluding a middle school student from using the boy’s bathroom.

Affirming a trial court decision, the Seventh Circuit ruled the student was likely to win his claims of unlawful discrimination in violation of the US Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause and Title IX, which bans sex-based discrimination in ...