Supreme Court won't hear dispute over bathrooms for transgender students (NBC)

[Passenger]

Supreme Court won't hear dispute over bathrooms for transgender students (NBC)

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up the issue of whether the nation's schools must allow students to use the bathroom that match their gender identities.

The court declined, without comment, to hear the case of Gavin Grimm, who has been at the center of a long legal battle with the school board in Gloucester County, Virginia. Grimm was born female but identified as male after his freshman year in high school, legally changing his name and beginning hormone therapy.

The principal at first gave him permission to use the boys' bathroom, but the school board later adopted a policy saying restrooms were "limited to the corresponding biological genders."

"For school officials, as for parents, the question how best to respond to a teenager who identifies with the opposite biological sex is often excruciatingly difficult," lawyers for the school district told the Supreme Court. But the privacy rights of millions of students are at risk if their transgender classmates are allowed to use bathrooms matching their gender identities, they said.

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Still the Trump court.

[madaboutharry]

1. Actually this was to the benefit of transgender students.

It was the school board that wanted to force students to use the bathroom assigned to the gender they were born.

[FBaggins]

2. Not much benefit

The student involved has already graduated and deciding not to hear the case leaves the precedential value to just the 4th Circuit.

But this isn't all that uncommon. SCOTUS likes to wait until a few circuits have weighed in before they get involved

[madaboutharry]

3. I was thinking the "universal" student.

Not this one student, but all those attending schools after him.

[FBaggins]

4. Me too

Students outside of MD/VA/NC/SC/WV are unaffected by the ruling.