UPDATE: Court sides with transgender student in his fight to use the boys' bathroom
Source: Washington Post
A federal judge in Virginia sided Tuesday with a transgender teenager who spent most of his high school years fighting to use the boys’ bathroom in a case that stood at the center of the national fight for transgender student rights. The judge said the school board that passed bathroom restrictions violated the teen’s constitutional rights.
Gavin Grimm, 19, sued the Gloucester County School Board after it passed a policy requiring students to use bathrooms that aligned with their “biological gender.” Grimm, who was assigned the gender female at birth, told his classmates he was transgender his sophomore year and began using the boys’ bathroom. When parents learned of it, they protested to the school board, which passed the restrictions.
The decision comes as schools, lawmakers and courts wrestle with how to accommodate students whose gender identity conflicts with the sex on their birth certificate.
Grimm argued the restriction violated Title IX, which prohibits sex discrimination in schools that receive federal funds. The Obama administration backed him, filing briefs supporting his case. But a federal judge in 2015 denied the teen’s request for a court order so he could use the boys’s bathroom.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/court-sides-with-transgender-student-in-his-fight-to-use-the-boys-bathroom/2018/05/22/96417800-5e03-11e8-9ee3-49d6d4814c4c_story.html
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by Washington Post Staff May 22 at 5:46 PM
Gavin Grimm, who attended a Gloucester, Va., high school, had sought to use the boys’ bathroom at the school but was blocked by school authorities. The case, which the Supreme Court sent back to a lower court, was at the center of the fight over transgender student rights.
This is a developing story. It will be updated.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2018/05/22/federal-judge-rules-in-favor-of-transgender-va-student-who-sought-to-use-boys-bathroom/?utm_term=.6255637dac11
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