WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday preserved a Pennsylvania school district’s policy accommodating transgender students, declining to hear a challenge backed by a conservative Christian group to rules letting them use bathrooms matching their gender identity.
The students challenging the policy argued that it violated their right to privacy under the U.S. Constitution’s 14th Amendment and a federal law that prohibits sex discrimination in education, known as Title IX. They were backed by the Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative Christian legal group that has been involved in several major Supreme Court cases.
Just a month after taking office in 2017, Republican President Donald Trump’s administration rescinded the Obama guidance. The administration has taken other steps to limit transgender rights including a Justice Department conclusion that a federal law against workplace discrimination on the basis of sex does not cover transgender or gay employees.
Lawyers for the students challenging the policy said the high school did not notify students or parents about it. During the 2016-2017 academic year, the school district applied the policy to three transgender students. Among the student challengers, two still attend the school while four others do not. One of the students, identified in the case as Joel Doe, was “embarrassed and confused” when he was in the locker room getting undressed with a transgender student present, his lawyers said in court papers.
Top court rejects challenge to rules accommodating Pennsylvania transgender students.🤣🇺🇸🌎🙄☹️🧐
Because feelings - but only male feelings - are always more important than females right to privacy and safety.
These students can now be free to be who they feel they are not what a religion tells them who they should be.
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At last, good news from SCOTUS.
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