The school board in Virginia has filed a petition in the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals after the court ruled in favor of a transgender student in a lawsuit challenging the school system’s restroom policy, which restricts access to boy’s restrooms to biological boys.
The lawsuit was brought by Gavin Grimm, then a senior at Gloucester High School. Grimm in 2015 sued the Gloucester County School Board after being denied access to the boys’ restroom at his school and asked to use the restroom in the nurse’s office instead. According to the ACLU, the activist lawyer group representing Grimm in court, Grimm had previously been permitted to use the boys’ restroom without incident until someone filed an anonymous complaint, prompting the school system to amend its policy.
