issued a decision saying the Gloucester County School Board violated federal law and the U.S. Constitution by requiring him to use separate, single-stall restrooms, which “might as well have had ‘Gavin’ on the sign,” as Judge Henry F.
Floyd wrote in the majority opinion, which applies not only to Grimm’s district but to trans-exclusionary restroom policies in general.Specifically, the school district violated Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 — which prohibits sex discrimination in education — and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, the Fourth Circuit ruled.
It upheld a ruling that came last year from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. The school board had.