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Virginia School Board Seeks SCOTUS Hearing on Trans Restroom Access

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petitioned the high court to take up the case; the justices’ decision on whether to do so likely won’t come for weeks or months.The petition comes in the case of Gavin Grimm, a trans youth who attended high school in Gloucester County and has now graduated.

He sued the school district in 2015 after being denied access to the boys’ restrooms, even though he had used them without incident for two months.

He was instead required to use an inconvenient single-stall restroom, which he avoided to the detriment of his health.Grimm lost at the trial court level but won at the U.S.

Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, which ruled in 2016 that the district had violated his rights under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 — a federal law.

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