Then there are the students like Mr. Grimm, who have had separate facilities set aside for them. “No one was in a rush to bring this case to the Supreme Court,” said Joshua Block, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union, which represents Mr. Grimm. But here in the nation’s capital and in big cities around the country, Mr. Grimm is now a hot property, the new face of the transgender rights movement. In 2014, when Mr. Grimm was 15 and starting his sophomore year, the family told his school he was transgender. Mr. Grimm is, by all accounts, the perfect plaintiff, poised beyond his years.

Source: New York Times February 23, 2017 22:12 UTC