Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Breaking News… Very Good News!

The Supreme Court refused to hear a case challenging a trans discrimination high school case.
U.S. top court rejects challenge to rules accommodating Pennsylvania transgender students
Reuters
By Lawrence Hurley
1 hr ago

WASHINGTON, May 28 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday preserved a Pennsylvania school district's policy accommodating transgender students, declining to hear a challenge backed by a conservative Christian group to rules letting them use bathrooms matching their gender identity.

The justices left in place a 2018 lower court ruling that upheld the Boyertown Area School District policy, which was challenged by six former or current high school students, though the action does not set a national legal precedent. The Supreme Court scrapped plans to hear a major transgender rights case involving bathroom access in public schools in 2017 and has never issued a decisive ruling on the matter.

The students challenging the policy argued that it violated their right to privacy under the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment and a federal law that prohibits sex discrimination in education, known as Title IX. They were backed by the Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative Christian legal group that has been involved in several major Supreme Court cases.
Is this a harbinger of things to come?

I sure hope so.

Some say they are waiting for the Gavin Grimm case but by refusing to hear this case that let the lower court ruling stand.

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