Supreme Court turns down appeal seeking limits for transgender students
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up an appeal from parents in Oregon who want to prevent transgender students from using locker rooms and bathrooms of the gender with which they identify, rather than of the sex assigned them at birth.
The case came from a school district near Salem, Oregon’s capital. The federal appeals court in San Francisco had upheld a Dallas, Ore., school district policy allowing transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms that align with their gender identity.
Parents had sued over the policy in 2017, saying it caused embarrassment and stress.
A lower court refused to block the policy, and the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed that decision, writing that the school district did not violate students’ constitutional rights nor a law protecting people from gender discrimination in education programs.
Similar lawsuits have been dismissed by courts in other parts of the country.
About 15,000 people live in Dallas, a town in an agricultural area 15 miles west of Salem.
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