The U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) has
temporarily stayed a lower court ruling that would have forced a Virginia
school district to let a transgender male student to use the bathroom of his
(her) choice.
The 5-3 decision allows the
Gloucester, VA school board to block 17-year-old Gavin Grimm from using the boy’s
restroom when he starts school next month.
Grimm, who was born a girl … but now identifies as a boy … argues that
the current VA school board policy requiring students to use the bathroom that
matches their birth gender is discriminatory.
Josh Block, an attorney with the
American Civil Liberties Union who is representing Grimm, says his client is
disappointed that he is “going to have to begin another school year being
stigmatized and separated from his peers as a result of this policy.”
Penny Nance, CEO and President of
Concerned Women for America, says schools should not be forced to follow the
Obama Administration’s transgender mandate.
“This case is a result of yet another Obama Administration overreach — to
require schools to allow students into any bathroom of their choice is an
overstep on legal boundaries,” Nance said.
“Schools all over this nation have rightly worked on a case-by-case
basis to accommodate kids struggling with gender dysphoria,” she continued. “They should not be forced by big government
to violate the privacy of other students and perhaps even create trauma for the
very kids Obama pretends to protect.”
Nance goes on to say, “Local school districts, with the input of parents
and health professionals, should be setting school policy on such a sensitive
and controversial issue, not Washington.”
The school board in Gloucester, VA
is expected to ask the Justices to further intervene in the case later this
month.
Rev. Dr.
Kenneth L. Beale, Jr.
Chaplain
(Colonel-Ret), U.S. Army
Pastor,
Ft. Snelling Memorial Chapel
The school board in Gloucester, VA is absolutely right. We recently had a candidate for ISD 196 school board come to our door and Leslie had to educate him on the fact that schools don't have to do whatever the federal gov't says. Of course the reply is always 'if we don't they'll withhold our federal funding'. Really, does it make any sense that the gov't can take our tax money and then use that money to force us to comply with their edicts?? Just what does the word 'independent' in Independent School District mean anyway? Can we claim to be independent when we have to depend on the federal gov't to subsidize our schools?
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