<br><div><aside class="gnt_em gnt_em__fp gnt_em_vp__tp gnt_em__el" aria-label="Video - Here's how Title IX is used to protect trans students, female athletes"/><p class="gnt_ar_b_p">WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Monday declined to wade into a dispute over whether schools may <a target="_blank" href="/story/news/politics/2016/08/03/supreme-court-transgender-bathrooms-virginia/88037966/" rel="noopener" data-t-l=":b|e|inline click|${u}" class="gnt_ar_b_a">bar transgender students from using a bathroom</a> that reflects their gender identity, permitting a lower court ruling against those prohibitions to stand.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p">At issue in the case was whether federal anti-discrimination law applied to LGBTQ students. <a target="_blank" href="/in-depth/news/politics/2021/06/16/gavin-grimms-trans-rights-bathroom-battle-returns-supreme-court/7492443002/" rel="noopener" data-t-l=":b|e|inline click|${u}" class="gnt_ar_b_a">Gloucester County School Board in Virginia argued</a> its policy of requiring transgender students to use unisex bathrooms was permitted under a 50-year-old law that prohibits discrimination at schools that receive federal funding.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p">By not taking the case, the Supreme Court without comment let stand a ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit that found the school’s policy discriminated against Gavin Grimm, a transgender man who was denied access to the boys’ bathroom years ago when he was a student.</p><aside aria-label="advertisement" class="gnt_m gnt_x gnt_x__lbl gnt_x__al"/><p class="gnt_ar_b_p">"I am glad that my years-long fight to have my school see me for who I am is over," Grimm said in a statement released by the American Civil Liberties Union, which represented him in the case. "Trans youth deserve to use the bathroom in peace without being humiliated and stigmatized by their own school boards and elected officials."</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p">Associate Justices <a target="_blank" href="/story/news/politics/2021/02/22/supreme-court-justice-clarence-thomas-renews-election-fraud-debate/4540788001/" rel="noopener" data-t-l=":b|e|inline click|${u}" class="gnt_ar_b_a">Clarence Thomas</a> and <a target="_blank" href="/story/news/politics/2021/01/31/supreme-court-justice-samuel-alito-marks-15-years-high-court/6697388002/" rel="noopener" data-t-l=":b|e|inline click|${u}" class="gnt_ar_b_a">Samuel Alito</a> said they would have taken the case. Experts have said that more cases involving transgender rights are likely to arrive at the high court in the future as conservative states pass a bevy of laws restricting transgender rights. </p><aside aria-label="advertisement" class="gnt_m gnt_x gnt_x__lbl gnt_x__al"/><p class="gnt_ar_b_p"><strong class="gnt_ar_b_al">Bathroom...</strong></p></div> <style> .wrapper { text-align: center; } </style> <div class="wrapper"> <a class="button" href ="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/06/28/supreme-court-wont-decide-trans-bathroom-case-involving-gavin-grimm/5318886001/">Read more <span>➤</span></a> </div>
