Supreme Court Refuses to Take Up Trans Restroom Case
previous ruling by the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in favor of the student, who is identified in court documents as A.C., will be allowed to remain in place while the case works its way through the courts.The 7th Circuit’s decision, issued in August, upheld a preliminary injunction issued by U.S.
District Judge Tanya Walton Pratt, of the Southern District of Indiana.By issuing the injunction, Pratt prevented the Metropolitan School District of Martinsville, which had sought to bar A.C.
from the boys’ restroom when he was in middle school, from enforcing a policy that prohibits transgender students from accessing facilities affirming their gender identity.A.C.
is currently permitted to use boys’ restroom facilities at his high school.In its ruling, the 7th Circuit had also upheld an injunction from another judge, James Sweeney II, that blocked the Vigo County School Corporation from enforcing a nearly identical policy against two other transgender teenagers seeking to access boys’ restroom facilities.However, unlike A.C.’s case, the school district did not ask the Supreme Court to overturn the 7th Circuit’s decision.
