It will be the first time the court has ruled directly on transgender rights.
The Supreme Court decided on Friday it will take up a case on transgender bathroom rules next year, marking its first venture into the increasingly controversial area of transgender rights.
The case deals with a 17-year-old transgender student, Gavin Grimm, who identifies as male and sued in 2015 when he was denied use of the boys’ bathrooms at his school in Virginia. He won the case then, but the battle started anew when the Gloucester County School Board appealed the ruling.
“If you told me two years ago that the Supreme Court was going to have to approve whether I could use the school restroom, I would have thought you were joking,” Mr. Grimm wrote in a Washington Post op-ed after the Supreme Court’s announcement. “I hope the justices of the Supreme Court can see me and the rest of the transgender community for who we are — just people — and rule accordingly.”
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