this Supreme Court It is currently announced that it will allow a trans boy to use his bathroom of choice in a South Carolina school.
The Justice refused to block the lower court order that allowed transgender students to use school bathrooms based on the students’ preferred gender. this court It noted that it did not directly weigh the legal issues, but simply refused to receive relief in the state’s urgent request.
“Refusal to apply is not an advantage of ruling on the legal issues raised in the lawsuit,” the order reads.
It points to Justice Clarence Thomas, Samuel A. Alito Jr. Below the court Decide to allow trans students to enter the opposite sex facility.
South Carolina asked last week Supreme Court To allow it to enforce state laws and President Trump’s directives for schools based on biological sexual behaviors.
In a dispute involving a ninth-grade trans boy, the state asked the judges to block the injunction issued by the lower court that ordered the boy (identified as “John Doe” in the document) to be able to use his preferred gender bathroom.
The state’s fiscal appropriations law requires a district to comply with “requiring it to designate its multi-person public school restroom to be used by only one gender member, and it restricts such restrooms to members of a specified gender” to obtain some public funding.
South Carolina also argued that the Department of Education found that it violated Title IX of the 1972 Education Amendment if students allowed their students to use restrooms, locker rooms and intimate facilities according to their gender identity.
Although the ban only applies to one school and transgender students, the state says Below the court Orders put the school district in trouble.
Meanwhile, the Justice will hear controversy over issues of transgender students gaining school sports during this period Court’s The upcoming semester will begin in October.
These cases are West Virginiav. BPJ and Littlev. Hecox, this is related to trans students in the women’s movement in West Virginia and Idaho.
Two trans athletes challenged the state law that violated the constitutional equal protection clause, which required the government to treat everyone similarly.
The South Carolina case was South Carolina v. Parents, Jim and Jane Doy.
