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US Supreme Court declines to lift block on expanded trans student protections
The fresh federal rule issued by the Biden administration in April expands the parameters of a 1972 rule known as Title IX, which bars sex discrimination in schools that obtain funding from the federal government, including most universities.
The rule sought to clarify the definition of "on the basis of sex" in the law to include gender identity.
Ten Republican-led states challenged the command, which went into drive on 1 August in some parts of the country.
They sued to block it from taking effect in their jurisdictions and won the cases in lower courts in Louisiana and Kentucky.
The Supreme Court's ruling now punts the issue support to lower courts.
The court's decision came in a 5-4 vote. Conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch joined the court's three liberal justices in his dissent.
The attorney general of Tennessee, which has objected to the Biden administration's new govern, issued a statement calling the move by the high court "a defeat for student privacy, free speech and the dictate of law”.
Cathryn Oakley of Human Rights watch called it "disappointing that the Sup
Bans on Trans person People Using Widespread Bathrooms and Facilities According to their Gender Identity
These laws prohibit transsexual people from using bathrooms and facilities—such as locker rooms, shower rooms, altering rooms, and other sex-segregated spaces—according to their gender culture in certain circumstances or places. All of these policies apply to K-12 school settings, and some apply even more broadly to other government-owned buildings and spaces. This can include bathrooms and facilities in government buildings (e.g., city hall, courthouses, state legislative buildings, and more), colleges or universities, jails or prisons, and even in some cases airports, widespread parks, and much more. Click "Citations" to find more detail about each state's ban, the places or spaces it covers, and more. Please note that these bans act not apply to, for example, intimate businesses or other non-government-owned spaces, though these spaces may have their possess discriminatory policies.
State bans transgender people from using bathrooms and facilities consistent with their gender culture in all government-owned buildings and spaces, including K-12 sc
WASHINGTON – The United States Supreme Court has declined to review a federal court ruling in favor of a transgender pupil and his family challenging a discriminatory restroom policy at an Indiana general school district.
Represented by the ACLU of Indiana, an adolescent transgender boy and his parents filed a lawsuit against the Metropolitan School District of Martinsville in December 2021 for failing to provide him with access to bathrooms consistent with his gender in violation of his rights under Title IX, the law prohibiting sex discrimination in educational programs, as well as the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. In an August 2023 perspective, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals found the school district policy did likely violate the student’s rights under Title IX and equal protection.
“We’re thankful the Court allowed this momentous victory for the transgender youth of Indiana to stand,” said Kenneth Falk, Legal Director of the ACLU of Indiana. “This case is about the fundamental right of every student to a safe and inclusive knowledge environment, and the policy at its core is an affront to the freedom of transgender youth to be themselves. We lo
Supreme Court Declines to Overhear School District’s Transgender Restroom Case
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to take up an Indiana school district’s appeal asking that the justices clarify whether Title IX or the U.S. Constitution’s equal-protection clause bars districts from requiring transgender students to use restrooms corresponding to their “biological sex.”
The court’s action leaves districts without uniform, national guidance on a topic on which federal courts around the country have differed, though advocates for the transsexual student pointed out to the court that pending federal regulations on Title IX, which support the right of transgender students to use school facilities consistent with their gender identity, would resolve the question.
The 4,100-student Martinsville district, about 30 miles southwest of Indianapolis, barred a transgender boy identified as A.C. from using boys’ restrooms at his middle school. But the scholar won a preliminary injunction from a federal district court, which a federal appeals court upheld last year by concluding the student was likely to prevail on both his Title IX and equal-protection claims.
In its appeal to the Supr
Transgender student wins bathroom battle after Supreme Court rejects educational facility board appeal
A non-binary man from Virginia has won a years-long legal battle against his former high school over its refusal to let him utilize boys bathrooms when he was a student.
The U.S. Supreme Court Monday rejected the Gloucester County School Board's appeal of a bring down court decision that found its trans bathroom ban is unconstitutional.
The decision is a major victory for former pupil Gavin Grimm and transgender advocates nationwide.
"I am glad that my years-long combat to have my school see me for who I am is over," Grimm said in a statement. "Being forced to utilize the nurse’s room, a private bathroom, and the girl’s room was humiliating for me, and having to move to out-of-the-way bathrooms severely interfered with my education. Transgender youth deserve to use the bathroom in peace without being humiliated and stigmatized by their own school boards and elected officials.”
The court's majority did not elaborate on its decision to reject the case. Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito said they would have taken up the case.
The Gloucester County School Board