Supreme Court Halts Order Allowing Transgender Student To Use Restroom Of His Gender Identity

Buzzfeed reports:

The Supreme Court put an order allowing a transgender student to use school restrooms in accordance with his gender identity on hold while the high court decides whether it will take the case.

The Supreme Court’s action likely means that the student, Gavin Grimm, will not be allowed to use the male restroom when he returns to his Virginia school in the fall.

The stay of the injunction in the student’s challenge to the Gloucester County School Board’s policy was granted on a 5-3 vote, with Justice Stephen Breyer joining his more conservative colleagues in granting the stay.

The order is not a ruling on the eventual outcome of the case itself, nor is it a definitive statement on whether the Supreme Court will even hear the school board’s appeal.

The struggle of definitions.