In a limited but important victory for transgender access, the U.S. Supreme Court announced June 28 that it would not review a lower court decision that favored a transgender student's restroom access at a public high school.
The court declined a request by a Virginia public school district to review a decision of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which covers five states — Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, West Virginia, and Maryland.
By refusing to hear the appeal, the high court leaves the favorable decision intact for those states. The case, Gloucester v.
Grimm, has been on the U.S. Supreme Court docket before. In 2017, the high court vacated a previous 4th Circuit ruling in favor of then-high school student Gavin Grimm,