US Supreme Court rejects case against bathroom access for transgender students

US Supreme Court on December 7 brushed aside a lawsuit aimed at barring transgender students from bathrooms and locker rooms that match ir gender identity. While High Court h decided not to hear case, aimed at ending an Oregon school district’s policy, Supreme Court’s rejection of appeal, on or hand, is a win for civil rights groups, who believed that confirmation of Justice Amy Coney Barrett would threaten LGBTQ equality. nation’s highest court did not give any explanation as to why it declined to hear argument of parents contesting policy, particularly on grounds of religious arguments or right to privacy. 

According to NBC News, Chase Strangio, deputy director for transgender justice with ACLU’s LGBT & HIV Project, said that Supreme Court has once again said that “transgender youth are not a threat to or students”. case h originated in Dallas, Oregon in 2017. Parents of high schoolers sued over Dallas School District’s policy of allowing a transgender male student use boy’s locker room and bathroom. Back n, a lawyer for parent h indicated that cisgender boys would be embarrassed and ashamed to change in same room as someone who was assigned female at birth. 

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In 2018, a lower court h n refused to block district’s policy. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals h also dismissed lawsuit after it found district’s plan sought to avoid discrimination and ensure safety and well-being of transgender students. court said that re is no 14th Amendment fundamental privacy right to avoid all risk of intimate exposure to or by a transgender person who was assigned opposite biological sex at birth.   court found that denying transgender students ability to use same facilities as or students would amount to illegal discrimination. 

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LGBTQ vocates praise SC’s decision 

Following Supreme Court’s decision, several LGBTQ vocates praised decision to reject appeal. y hailed it as an “excellent news” and said that trans students deserve an educational environment that is safe, supportive and free from discrimination.

In a statement, Santiago h also said that decision not take this case is an important and powerful message to trans and non-binary youth that y deserve to share space with and enjoy benefits of school alongside ir non-transgender peers. 

Meanwhile, it is worth noting that President Barack Obama’s ministration h issued landmark guidance in 2016 requiring public schools to let students use bathrooms and locker rooms matching gender with which y identify, rar than one on ir birth certificate. However, President Donald Trump’s ministration overturned those rules in 2018, leaving decision to local jurisdiction. Since n, while some conservative states passed laws forcing students to use bathrooms corresponding with ir birth sex, ors, on or hand, opted previous ministration’s stance, including Dallas school district in state of Oregon. 

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