THREE years ago, Gavin Grimm, then a high-school freshman in Virginia, struggled with his gender identity. Born a girl but feeling like a boy, Gavin’s stress was so great that he often found himself skipping class. After talking to a psychologist and receiving a diagnosis of gender dysphoria, Mr Grimm began to live as a boy, with a treatment plan that asked others to treat him “as a boy in all respects, including when using the restroom”. Mr Grimm started his sophomore year by dashing off to the bathroom in the nurse’s office, but after a few weeks, with the principal’s assent, he began using the boys’ room. Soon, in response to some parents’ complaints, the school board scuttled this arrangement, decreeing that “male and female restroom and locker room facilities...shall be limited to the corresponding biological genders”.
Mr Grimm sued the Gloucester County School Board with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union, losing initially but winning on appeal. The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in April 2016 that in keeping with the Obama administration’s plausible reading of Title IX, a civil-rights law barring gender discrimination, Mr Grimm must...Continue reading
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