Virginia School Board Asks Supreme Court to Review Transgender Ruling

A school board in Virginia is asking the Supreme Court to review its policy requiring students to use the bathroom that corresponds to their biological sex at birth after lower courts found the policy unconstitutional. The case is Gloucester County School Board v. Grimm. The board filed its petition for certiorari, or review, with the Supreme Court on Feb. 19, arguing that its bathroom policy raises a “pressing federal question of national importance.” The appeal comes after the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit ruled that the school board violated Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972 and the Equal Protection Clause by forbidding Gavin Grimm, who was born female, from using the same restrooms as boys. Grimm has since graduated from the school and is now an activist in California. “I graduated four years … Read More