The supreme court will take up transgender rights for the first time in the case of a Virginia school board that wants to prevent a transgender teenager from using the boys’ bathroom at his high school. The justices said on Friday they will hear the appeal from the Gloucester County school board some time next year. Virginia school board takes transgender bathroom case to supreme court Read moreA lower court had ordered the school board to accommodate Grimm, but the justices in August put that order on hold while they considered whether to hear the appeal. The directive tells schools to allow transgender students to use the bathroom and locker room consistent with their gender identity. The supreme court split five to three in August to put the court order in Grimm’s case on hold.

Source: The Guardian October 28, 2016 19:44 UTC