The US Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal from the Gloucester County (Virginia) school district to overturn a lower court decision that allows transgender students to decide which bathroom they would use, a victory in the fight for LGBTQ rights.
The Washington Post reports that the decision to refuse to hear the case effectively upholds the decision of the lower court to overturn the school district requirement that students use bathrooms associated with their assigned gender at birth.
While no final count on the decision to not hear the case was announced, Justices Thomas and Alito both said they would have accepted the case.
Last August, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit ruled that the school district had practiced sex-based discrimination by banning Gavin Grimm, a transgender male student, from using the boys bathroom at his high school, instead instructing him to use a single bathroom in the high school that had a single stall in it.