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High Court: School Can Block Transgender Teen from Boys Room

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The Supreme Court has temporarily stayed a lower court ruling that would have forced a Virginia school district to let a transgender male student use the bathroom of his choice.

Wednesday's 5-3 decision allows the Gloucester, Virginia, school board to block 17-year-old Gavin Grimm from using the boys restroom when he school starts next month.

Grimm, who was born a girl but now identifies as a boy, argues that the current Virginia 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."

"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," she said.

The school board in Gloucester, Virginia, is expected to ask the justices to further intervene in the case later this month.

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