What’s next for the transgender bathroom case before the Supreme Court

Apple, IBM and Microsoft are among the companies supporting Gavin Grimm. The Trump administration said the issue should be dealt with at the state level.

With his school’s permission, Grimm used the boys’ restroom for seven weeks in the fall of 2014, until several parents of fellow students and a number of other Gloucester County residents complained to the school board.

“From a straight merits standpoint, the case should be easy”, the plaintiffs” attorney said. “This should be a warning to other local Virginia school boards and government bodies to back away from following the path of Fairfax County”.

In their brief, the tech companies argue that reversing the fourth circuit federal court’s decision could have a harmful and far-reaching impact.

The Supreme court is expected to hear arguments in Grimm’s case on March 28, and it will be the first major decision in US history on whether transgender people are covered under sex discrimination law.

“The clerk’s office evidently understands [the rule] to mean that there is some sort of official caption for every case in the court”, the Bench Memos column says. She said there’s a way to accommodate students who identify as the opposite sex without infringing upon the privacy of other students, but the transgender rights movement have been unwilling to accept any compromise.

“For decades and decades, you never heard any push for nonpartisan redistricting until Republicans took over about 15 or 16 years ago, which I find real interesting”, he said. Or they could postpone it to April or even the fall. With litigation relating to the use of public restrooms by transgender people pending around the country, he argued, the Supreme Court will inevitably have to weigh in at some point.

The suit involves Gavin Grimm, a Virginia high school student who sued to be able to use the bathrooms in his school that corresponds to his chosen gender. (Case No. 16-273) in light of the fact President Donald Trump’s administration last week withdrew two Obama-era guidance documents that called on schools to respect the wishes of transgender students when it came to restrooms and locker rooms. They sent the case back so that a trial court panel can decide if race was the predominant motive for the design of the 11 districts. They go on to urge the Court “not to accept an interpretation of Title IX that would reduce them and all transgender individuals to second-class citizens, but instead to promote the valuable contributions they make to American society”.

It seems likely that the Justices will discuss these new developments when they meet on Friday in a closed-door conference to discuss pending cases.