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   From: latimer@nescco.com   
      
   Just wait until the niggers rape this fat ugly bitch when they   
   catch her in the boys restroom.   
      
   The supreme court on Wednesday blocked a court order giving a   
   transgender student access to the boys’ bathroom at his Virginia   
   high school, in what is the high court’s first ruling on an   
   increasingly contentious topic.   
      
   The ruling permits the Gloucester county school board to   
   continue barring Gavin Grimm, a trans boy, from using the boys’   
   restroom until the supreme court decides whether or not to hear   
   Grimm’s challenge to the school board.   
      
   The decision is a major setback for the teenager and will bar   
   him from using the bathroom consistent with his gender identity   
   when he begins his senior year of high school.   
      
   In April, Grimm won a key victory before the fourth circuit   
   court of appeals that granted him access to the boy’s bathroom.   
      
   At the time, the circuit court was the highest court in the   
   country to have weighed in on the issue of transgender access to   
   spaces, such as bathrooms and locker rooms, that are segregated   
   by gender. Trans rights supporters hailed Grimm’s win was hailed   
   as a key victory. In July, the circuit court rejected a plea   
   from the Gloucester County school board to stay its order while   
   the lawsuit continued.   
      
   In response, the school board appealed to the supreme court,   
   arguing that allowing a trans student to use a bathroom that   
   didn’t correspond with his or her “biological” gender would   
   cause irreparable harm by violating other students’ privacy.   
      
   The court’s four conservative justices and Justice Stephen   
   Breyer voted for Wednesday’s ruling on the basis that it “will   
   preserve the status quo” as Grimm’s court fight continues.   
   Breyer joined the majority “as a courtesy”.   
      
   Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan   
   indicated that they would have allowed Grimm to have access to   
   the boy’s restroom while the case is on appeal.   
      
   “We are disappointed that the court has issued a stay and that   
   Gavin will have to begin another school year isolated from his   
   peers and stigmatized by the Gloucester County school board just   
   because he’s a boy who is transgender,” said Joshua Block, an   
   attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union who is   
   representing Grimm. “We remain hopeful that Gavin will   
   ultimately prevail.”   
      
   Grimm’s lawsuit is just one of many asking whether federal law   
   protects students like him from discrimination.   
      
   Both the Department of Justice and the Department of Education   
   have ruled that Title IX, a federal law banning gender   
   discrimination, protects the right of transgender individuals to   
   use the bathrooms and restrooms consistent with their gender   
   identity without restriction. In May, Barack Obama announced   
   that his administration expected all public schools to comply or   
   risk the loss of millions in federal education funds.   
      
   But a growing number of states and schools have revolted against   
   those mandates in a surge of legal challenges. Nearly two dozen   
   states in two separate lawsuits are suing the Obama   
   administration, claiming the Title IX definition of gender bias   
   does not establish protections for transgender individuals.   
   Separately, North Carolina and the federal government are   
   embroiled in a massive legal battle over that state’s broad   
   restrictions, which apply to restrooms and locker rooms in any   
   public spaces.   
      
   Grimm sued the Gloucester County school board in 2015. The   
   junior high school student, who was assigned female at birth,   
   started the school year having transitioned: school documents   
   identified Grimm as male and he went by Gavin in class.   
      
   For seven weeks, Grimm also used the boy’s bathroom without any   
   interference. But the school board changed its policy when   
   parents – and some adults with no children in the Gloucester   
   county school system – complained. A series of virulent public   
   meetings followed, where residents called Grimm a “freak” and   
   compared him to a dog.   
      
   The board ultimately forced Grimm to use standalone unisex   
   bathrooms installed specifically for his use. The experience,   
   Grimm has said, was “humiliating”.   
      
   US district Judge Robert Doumar dismissed Grimm’s lawsuit in   
   September, saying Title IX “allows schools to maintain separate   
   bathrooms based on sex” and “under any fair reading, ‘sex’ …   
   clearly includes biological sex” that individuals are assigned   
   at birth.   
      
   But the fourth circuit rejected that argument and ruled that   
   Title IX extends to transgender individuals.   
      
   “The uncontroverted facts before the district court demonstrate   
   that as a result of the Board’s restroom policy, [Grimm]   
   experiences daily psychological harm that puts him at risk for   
   long-term psychological harm,” one of the circuit judges, Andre   
   Davis, wrote in his concurring opinion.   
      
   https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/03/transgender-   
   student-bathroom-virginia-supreme-court-order   
             
      
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