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School board plans to ask U.S. Supreme Court to hear transgender bathroom case

The Washington Post: A Virginia school board plans to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether the Obama administration went too far in directing the nation’s schools to let transgender students use bathrooms of their choice, arguing that the guidance issued to schools is an overreach of power and violates student privacy.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit on Tuesday granted the Gloucester County School Board’s request to put the court’s earlier ruling in the case on hold while it petitions the Supreme Court. The 4th Circuit ruled in April that transgender student Gavin Grimm could continue his lawsuit against the school board, in which he has argued that a policy banning him from the boys’ bathroom violates his civil rights.

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