Post by Logan on Jun 2, 2016 13:50:07 GMT -6
Court denies rehearing of transgender ruling impacting West Virginia
The Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Tuesday denied a request from West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey and officials from other states for all 15 of the court’s judges to rehear a case concerning whether a Virginia transgender student can use the boys’ restroom at his high school.
On April 19, a three-judge panel of the Fourth Circuit ruled in favor of the teenager from Gloucester County, Virginia. According to the court, the student had a “biological sex” of female, but he had been diagnosed with gender dysphoria, which the court described as a “medical condition characterized by clinically significant distress caused by an incongruence between a person’s gender identity and the person’s birth-assigned sex.”
That ruling set precedent for West Virginia, which also is part of the Fourth Circuit.
“Now that the Fourth Circuit’s decision is final, I hope my school board will finally do the right thing and let me go back to using the boys’ restroom again,” Gavin Grimm, the Virginia student, said in a news release from the American Civil Liberties Union. “Transgender kids should not have to sue their own school boards just for the ability to use the same restrooms as everyone else.”
“The April ruling marked the first time a federal appeals court has determined Title IX protects the rights of transgender students to use sex-segregated facilities that are consistent with their gender identity,” the ACLU stated.
- See more at: www.wvgazettemail.com/news-education/20160601/court-denies-rehearing-of-transgender-ruling-impacting-wv
The Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Tuesday denied a request from West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey and officials from other states for all 15 of the court’s judges to rehear a case concerning whether a Virginia transgender student can use the boys’ restroom at his high school.
On April 19, a three-judge panel of the Fourth Circuit ruled in favor of the teenager from Gloucester County, Virginia. According to the court, the student had a “biological sex” of female, but he had been diagnosed with gender dysphoria, which the court described as a “medical condition characterized by clinically significant distress caused by an incongruence between a person’s gender identity and the person’s birth-assigned sex.”
That ruling set precedent for West Virginia, which also is part of the Fourth Circuit.
“Now that the Fourth Circuit’s decision is final, I hope my school board will finally do the right thing and let me go back to using the boys’ restroom again,” Gavin Grimm, the Virginia student, said in a news release from the American Civil Liberties Union. “Transgender kids should not have to sue their own school boards just for the ability to use the same restrooms as everyone else.”
“The April ruling marked the first time a federal appeals court has determined Title IX protects the rights of transgender students to use sex-segregated facilities that are consistent with their gender identity,” the ACLU stated.
- See more at: www.wvgazettemail.com/news-education/20160601/court-denies-rehearing-of-transgender-ruling-impacting-wv