School lawyer: Despite birth certificate, Grimm still female

[SoCalNative]

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Gavin Grimm, the transgender man who sued after being barred from using boys bathrooms in high school, remains female today, no matter what his birth certificate or a Virginia judge might have said, a lawyer for the school board argued in federal court Tuesday.

Attorney David Corrigan declared that gender is not a "societal construct." It doesn't matter that Grimm underwent chest reconstruction surgery and hormone therapy, he said — the Gloucester County School Board still considers him a woman.

The hearing in Norfolk was the latest step in a yearslong legal battle that has come to embody the debate about transgender student rights.

Grimm's lawsuit became a federal test case and was supposed to go before the U.S. Supreme Court. But the high court hearing was canceled after President Donald Trump rescinded an Obama-era directive that students can choose bathrooms corresponding with their gender identity.

https://pilotonline.com/news/government/nation/article_a25002c7-8805-5cf8-9431-a477288bdfff.html

[jberryhill]

1. When I was in high school...

They removed the doors. I shit you not, they removed the doors from the bathrooms to the hallways. When you walked by, you could see the sinks and stalls, and I guess the idea was that if there was anything nefarious going on in there, then it could be detected from the hallway.

I think I went to the bathroom maybe one time in high school.

Not many other students did either. It’s a wonder we didn’t graduate with large intestine damage.

One of the senior quotes was “Put the doors back on.”