When Grimm was a 15-year-old pupil at Gloucester High School, he was banned from using the men’s bathroom. The school’s board required Grimm, now 22, to use bathrooms that corresponded with his biological sex, female, or use private bathrooms.
He subsequently filed a federal lawsuit and fought in court for six years to overturn the decision. In their petition asking the Supreme Court to hear the case, the school board claimed that its bathroom policy poses a “pressing federal question of national importance” and that federal laws protected them against discrimination based on sex, not gender identity.
The board also claimed that Grimm was anatomically a female because he had not undergone sex-reassignment surgery. Grimm said that being