Transgender student asks Supreme Court to keep out of bathroom case

[jpak]

Source: kfgo.com


(Reuters) - Lawyers for a transgender high school student in Virginia asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to keep out of a legal dispute about bathroom rights and allow a lower court ruling in the student's favor to remain in place.

The high court is weighing an emergency request from the Gloucester County School Board to prevent the student, Gavin Grimm, who was born a girl but now identifies as male, from using the boys' bathroom when school resumes.

The case is the first time that the legal fight over transgender bathroom rights, an increasingly divisive issue in the United States, has reached the Supreme Court.

The American Civil Liberties Union sued on behalf of Grimm, 17, to challenge the school board's bathroom policy, which requires transgender students to use alternative restroom facilities.

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[forest444]

1. And to Scaliar, wherever you are:

Go marry a urinal!

[whistler162]

2. The Supreme Court needs to hear the lawsuit

as it may impact other states laws that discriminate against the Transgender. But, Gavin getting the publicity will be rough on him.

Do wish that the idiot news services would hire editors. "who was born a girl but now identifies as male" should be at least "who was born female but identifies as male".