The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday it will not consider an appeal of a lower-court ruling that biologically-female former student Gavin Grimm had a constitutional right to use male restrooms at Virginia’s Gloucester High School, leaving in place a victory for “transgender” redefinition of federal nondiscrimination rules.
Grimm, who claims to be male, is a graduate of Gloucester who rose to prominence after challenging the school’s restroom policy starting in 2014. The Gloucester County School Board originally attempted to accommodate her request by letting her use a private restroom, but Grimm demanded access to the same restrooms used by male students.
District Judge Arenda Wright Allen sided with Grimm in May 2018, ruling that the policy “classified Mr. [sic] Grimm differently on the basis of his (sic) transgender status and, accordingly, subjected him (sic) to sex stereotyping.” The board appealed, but Allen again rejected the school board’s argument that gender is a physical reality rather than a social construct. The board appealed the case to the Fourth Circuit in September 2019, a panel of which sided with Grimm last April.
In this Monday’s order list, the nation’s highest court confirmed that it is denying an appeal to review the Fourth Circuit’s argument, with only conservative Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissenting.
CNN noted that in practice, the decision means that, while binding nationwide precedent on the issue has not been set, “public school students in the mid-Atlantic states covered by the 4th Circuit, as well as states governed by the 7th Circuit and the 11th Circuit, can use the bathroom that corresponds to their gender identity.”
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The supremes can’t hear every case that petitioners’ request. Don’t imply anything by this.
Let’s just follow St. Therese’s advice and let things be, as God wills. Everything is grace. Everything. Every. Thing.
Transracialism is the next logical thing, but the left opposes that because it would destroy their attempts to divide people by race. They want to argue that race matters but biological sex and anatomy don’t matter. You have to be some kind of stupid or ideologically evil to believe those twisted lies.
Of course… if a man can identify as a woman, why can’t a white man identify as a black man (or black woman)? Then on to transspeciesism. A man can identify as a dog. The left has completely disassociated from reality and facts, and it will be the downfall of America and the West if people continue to subscribe to this idiocy.
You can be whatever you want to be. Yes, transracial is a thing. A woman has married her dog. A woman has married herself. A man has identified as a dog. It is not the downfall of America or Britain. I don’t think being left is the issue.
Amy Coney Barrett was supposed to be the champion of the faith. It is good to trust in the Lord, rather than to trust in princes. (Ps. 117:9)
You read too much into this denial of a writ of a certiorari. That’s all it was.
This is a biological female going into a men’s room. I fear for her safety.
It’s high school.
Exactly.