Supreme Court Instructs Liberty Counsel to Refer to Transgender Teen Gavin Grimm as Male

Liberty Counsel Chastised for Its Juvenile Disregard for the Rules and for Gavin Grimm

Gavin Grimm is a teenaged boy, a high school senior who has been suing his local school board for barring him from using boys’ restrooms and forcing him to use a converted janitors’ closet instead. Grimm is transgender and his case has now reached the Supreme Court.

Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court slapped down Liberty Counsel, the anti-gay hate group that parades around as a conservative Christian law firm – they’re the folks who represented Kim Davis and falsely claimed that 100,000 Christians in Lima, Peru held a prayer rally for the Kentucky county clerk.

In a letter to Liberty Counsel chairman Mat Staver (photo above), posted to Twitter Saturday morning by the ACLU, which is representing Grimm, the Clerk of the Supreme Court instructs the Christian law firm to refer to Grimm as male, which they had not in their amicus brief court filing.

The folks at Liberty Counsel actually went out of their way to change the pronouns used in the official court caption of the case.

“It has come to the attention of this office,” the Supreme Court letter to Staver reads, “that the cover of your amicus brief in this case identifies the respondent as ‘G.G., by her Next Friend and Mother, Deirdre Grimm.’ In fact , the caption for the case in this Court, as in the lower courts, identifies the respondent as ‘G.G., by his Next Friend and Mother, Deirdre Grimm. (Emphasis added.)”

“Please ensure careful compliance with this requirement in this and other cases in the future,” the letter concludes.

While this is likely a technical issue and has no bearing on the outcome of his upcoming case, it’s nice to see Liberty Counsel chastised for its juvenile disregard for the rules and for Gavin Grimm, and for that to be officially recorded by the nation’s highest court.

Staver’s Liberty Counsel is also representing international anti-LGBT preacher Scott Lively, who is charged with crimes against humanity, and Alabama’s Roy Moore who, for the second time, lost his job as that state’s Supreme Court chief justice. 

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