Court Decisions Doesn’t Mean Anything To Them!

Do you remember the case of  Grimm v. Gloucester County School Board where the Supreme Court let stand a lower decision? In that case the lower court ruled that we are covered under Title IX, that sex does include gender identity.

Clashing with Gavin Grimm decision, Virginia’s new transgender school policies trouble civil rights groups
The Virginian-Pilot
By Nour Habib and Peter Dujardin
September 20, 2022


Schools and civil rights groups are reviewing the new model policies released by the Department of Education last week regarding the treatment of transgender students in K-12 public schools. Though not yet commenting on the legality of the new policies, civil rights groups have expressed concern about how they can impact transgender students in the state’s public schools.

“The ACLU certainly is disappointed in the guidelines,” said Matt Callahan, senior staff attorney for the ACLU of Virginia. “We don’t think that it adequately protects transgender youth.”

The Virginia NAACP condemned what it called the “rollback of protections for transgender students,” saying the new model policies sent a “deeply troubling message to students that this administration will not stand up for students’ civil rights.”

Robert N. Barnette, Jr., president of the Virginia NAACP, said, “this policy is painful and resembles the history of segregation in restrooms and other public accommodations and history is at risk of repeating itself.”

Their justification for changing the policies was horrible! It aims at segregating us and marginalizing us.

The document posted Friday said the previous policies “promoted a specific viewpoint aimed at achieving cultural and social transformation in schools.”

The 2021 model policies called for schools to use a student’s preferred pronoun and allow students to use restrooms that aligned with their gender identity. The new model policies, which emphasize parental rights, state that school personnel can use pronouns that do not correspond to the student’s recorded sex if a parent, or a student age 18 or older, provides written permission “because of the student’s persistent and sincere belief that the student’s gender differs from his or her sex.”

The Republican use the buzzword… “Parental Rights” which is a twist on their “Religious Freedom” chant. As if “Parental Rights” are somehow a magical phrase that allows them to break the law. Because in Connecticut and many other states it is against the law to discriminate against LGBTQ+ people. So by saying we don’t want trans children to use the bathroom that our children use that is blatant discrimination!

Taking LGBTQ+ books off of library shelves is discrimination.

Taking Black history out of books is discrimination.

Preventing teachers and students from saying “Gay” is discrimination.

The Trump’s Supreme Court even said so.

But like Trump’s administration governor Youngkin’s administration chose to ignore the Supreme Court and discriminate against us.

In October 2014, Grimm got permission from his principal to use the boys’ room, doing so without incident for seven weeks before parents objected. Administrators tried to allay those concerns by increasing privacy in the boys’ room, but it wasn’t enough to mollify the objections.

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The 4th Circuit upheld that decision in 2020: The three-judge panel ruled 2-1 that the board should have allowed Grimm to use the boys’ room. “The solution was apparent — allow Grimm to use the boys’ restrooms, as he had been doing without incident,” the appeals court opinion said.

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Though Gloucester County appealed the ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court, the high court in June 2021 declined to take the case, meaning the 4th Circuit’s ruling still stands. It’s now applicable as federal case law in Virginia, Maryland, North and South Carolina and West Virginia.

But the governor of Virginia believes that he is above the law and can make his rules.