GAVIN GRIMM

The board will pay legal costs to the ACLU after the nonprofit spent six years representing a student in his lawsuit. Various courts had ruled that the board's policy was unconstitutional.

Because birth certificates have been used to discriminate against marginalized communities, the association recommended removing sex markers.

​The case centered around Gavin Grimm, a transgender boy in Virginia. The school board barred him from using the boys bathroom. Grimm sued and won.

The order in favour of Gavin Grimm is seen as a significant win for LGBT student rights.

Supreme Court declines to hear bathroom case in victory for transgender student

The Supreme Court declined to consider overturning rulings for transgender student Gavin Grimm in a case involving gender bathrooms.

Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito said they would have heard the case.

Monday's order denying review in the case means Gavin Grimm's victory in the lower courts remains intact.

The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected a Virginia school board’s appeal to reinstate its transgender bathroom ban.

The lawsuit wound up back at the Supreme Court at a time when some states are passing laws to limit protections for transgender people.

A closely watched voting rights dispute from Arizona is among five cases standing between the Supreme Court and its summer break.

A closely watched voting rights dispute from Arizona is among five cases standing between the Supreme Court and its summer break.

Gavin Grimm’s lawsuit drew headlines in 2016 when the Supreme Court initially agreed to hear it. A change in presidents has brought the case back.

Grimm's lawsuit alleged that the school board violated Grimm's equal protection rights as well as Title IX, the federal policy that protects against gender-based discrimination. He graduated in 2017 from Gloucester High School, located in a mostly rural area about 60 miles (95 kilometers) east of Richmond. (T)here is no question that the Boards policy discriminates against transgender students on the basis of their gender noncomformity, Allen wrote. Under the policy, all students except for transgender students may use restrooms corresponding with their gender identity, she continued. Transgender students are singled out, subjected to discriminatory treatment, and excluded from spaces where similarly situated students are permitted to go.