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Supreme court blocks order to let obese gender-confused female transgender student use boys' bathroom

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Just wait until the niggers rape this fat ugly bitch when they 
catch her in the boys restroom.

The supreme court on Wednesday blocked a court order giving a 
transgender student access to the boys’ bathroom at his Virginia 
high school, in what is the high court’s first ruling on an 
increasingly contentious topic.

The ruling permits the Gloucester county school board to 
continue barring Gavin Grimm, a trans boy, from using the boys’ 
restroom until the supreme court decides whether or not to hear 
Grimm’s challenge to the school board.

The decision is a major setback for the teenager and will bar 
him from using the bathroom consistent with his gender identity 
when he begins his senior year of high school.

In April, Grimm won a key victory before the fourth circuit 
court of appeals that granted him access to the boy’s bathroom.

At the time, the circuit court was the highest court in the 
country to have weighed in on the issue of transgender access to 
spaces, such as bathrooms and locker rooms, that are segregated 
by gender. Trans rights supporters hailed Grimm’s win was hailed 
as a key victory. In July, the circuit court rejected a plea 
from the Gloucester County school board to stay its order while 
the lawsuit continued.

In response, the school board appealed to the supreme court, 
arguing that allowing a trans student to use a bathroom that 
didn’t correspond with his or her “biological” gender would 
cause irreparable harm by violating other students’ privacy.

The court’s four conservative justices and Justice Stephen 
Breyer voted for Wednesday’s ruling on the basis that it “will 
preserve the status quo” as Grimm’s court fight continues. 
Breyer joined the majority “as a courtesy”.

Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan 
indicated that they would have allowed Grimm to have access to 
the boy’s restroom while the case is on appeal.

“We are disappointed that the court has issued a stay and that 
Gavin will have to begin another school year isolated from his 
peers and stigmatized by the Gloucester County school board just 
because he’s a boy who is transgender,” said Joshua Block, an 
attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union who is 
representing Grimm. “We remain hopeful that Gavin will 
ultimately prevail.”

Grimm’s lawsuit is just one of many asking whether federal law 
protects students like him from discrimination.

Both the Department of Justice and the Department of Education 
have ruled that Title IX, a federal law banning gender 
discrimination, protects the right of transgender individuals to 
use the bathrooms and restrooms consistent with their gender 
identity without restriction. In May, Barack Obama announced 
that his administration expected all public schools to comply or 
risk the loss of millions in federal education funds.

But a growing number of states and schools have revolted against 
those mandates in a surge of legal challenges. Nearly two dozen 
states in two separate lawsuits are suing the Obama 
administration, claiming the Title IX definition of gender bias 
does not establish protections for transgender individuals. 
Separately, North Carolina and the federal government are 
embroiled in a massive legal battle over that state’s broad 
restrictions, which apply to restrooms and locker rooms in any 
public spaces.

Grimm sued the Gloucester County school board in 2015. The 
junior high school student, who was assigned female at birth, 
started the school year having transitioned: school documents 
identified Grimm as male and he went by Gavin in class.

For seven weeks, Grimm also used the boy’s bathroom without any 
interference. But the school board changed its policy when 
parents – and some adults with no children in the Gloucester 
county school system – complained. A series of virulent public 
meetings followed, where residents called Grimm a “freak” and 
compared him to a dog.

The board ultimately forced Grimm to use standalone unisex 
bathrooms installed specifically for his use. The experience, 
Grimm has said, was “humiliating”.

US district Judge Robert Doumar dismissed Grimm’s lawsuit in 
September, saying Title IX “allows schools to maintain separate 
bathrooms based on sex” and “under any fair reading, ‘sex’ … 
clearly includes biological sex” that individuals are assigned 
at birth.

But the fourth circuit rejected that argument and ruled that 
Title IX extends to transgender individuals.

“The uncontroverted facts before the district court demonstrate 
that as a result of the Board’s restroom policy, [Grimm] 
experiences daily psychological harm that puts him at risk for 
long-term psychological harm,” one of the circuit judges, Andre 
Davis, wrote in his concurring opinion.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/03/transgender-
student-bathroom-virginia-supreme-court-order
    

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