Breaking: School Board Asks SCOTUS for Stay in Transgender Teen’s Case

Virginia School Board Asks US Supreme Court to Stay Decision, Hear Full Case

A Virginia public school board has just asked the U.S. Supreme Court to stay the decision of the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals that mandates a transgender teenaged boy be allowed to use the boys’ restrooms. In a 2-1 decision the 4th Circuit late Tuesday denied the Gloucester County School Board’s request for a stay, prompting the move.

The Gloucester County School Board is requesting a “recall and stay of the 4th Circuit’s mandate,” to “prevent irreparable harm to the Board and its students.” The motion also states it will ask the Supreme Court to hear the full case.

Buzzfeed’s Chris Geidner posted the filing to Twitter:

The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports the school board “petitioned Chief Justice John Roberts who oversees the 4th Circuit.”

Gavin Grimm, the transgender teenager who is suing the school board under the ACLU’s representation, has said the school’s current policy, forcing him to only use a private, 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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