Correction: 4th Circuit Does Not Issue Stay in Transgender ‘Bathroom’ Case

Update

UPDATE:
Per the ever-correct Chris Geidner, the 4th Circuit has not stayed its decision:

We’re leaving the remainder of this post intact, but to repeat, the 4th Circuit has NOT stayed its ruling. 

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The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals has granted a request for a stay on its earlier ruling in a case brought by a Virginia transgender boy. The Gloucester County School Board made the request just hours ago, notifying the federal court it will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to hear its case.

The stay forces the transgender boy teen to use the restrooms and locker rooms associated with his sex assigned at birth, or a single-use stall, instead of the boys’ rooms and boys’ locker rooms.

Mike Valerio of NBC News affiliate NBC12 in Virginia reported on the stay, as Patch reported.

At issue is the Gloucester County School Board’s policy banning Gavin Grimm, a transgender teen, from using the boys’ restrooms and locker rooms. Last week, after the 4th Circuit refused to re-hear the case, handing him another win, Grimm said  the school’s policy of forcing him to use a single-stall restroom, “would further alienate and stigmatize me by forcing me to use separate restrooms from all of the other students at school.”

 

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