The Supreme Court on Monday decided not to rule on a high-profile transgender rights case that could have clarified whether federal law covers gender identity discrimination in public schools. The Obama administration originally put those guidelines in place, and a federal judge later blocked them. The high court asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit to look at the case again and decide what to do with it now that the transgender guidance is no longer on the books. The Supreme Court had scheduled a March 28 hearing for the case, and the dispute was already shaping up to be the biggest case of the court’s current term. Scores of trans rights organizations, school administrators, advocates and officials from the Obama administration filed legal briefs with the Supreme Court last week to throw their support behind the 17-year-old Grimm, who graduates in June.

Source: Huffington Post March 06, 2017 15:05 UTC