Transgender student wins bathroom battle after Supreme Court rejects school board appeal

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A transgender man from Virginia has won a years-long legal battle against his former high school over its refusal to let him use boys bathrooms when he was a student.

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The U.S. Supreme Court Monday rejected the Gloucester County School Board's appeal of a lower court decision that found its transgender bathroom ban is unconstitutional."I am glad that my years-long fight to have my school see me for who I am is over," Grimm said in a statement."Being forced to use the nurse’s room, a private bathroom, and the girl’s room was humiliating for me, and having to go to out-of-the-way bathrooms severely interfered with my education.

The court's majority did not elaborate on its decision to reject the case. Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito said they would have taken up the case. The Gloucester County School Board had argued that gender identity is not protected under federal civil rights law and that because Grimm had not undergone surgery for sex-reassignment he was still, anatomically, a female.

In a statement to ABC News, the Board declined to elaborate on the justices' decision:"At this time, the Gloucester County School Board has no comment on the denial of the Petition for Writ of Certiorari in the

 

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