SCOTUS Denies Trans Teen’s Use of Boys Bathroom

The Daily Beast (August 4, 2016): SCOTUS Denies Trans Teen’s Use of Boys Bathroom, by Samantha Allen: 

Gavin Grimm, a 17 year old transgender boy, had his right to use the boy's bathroom at school placed on "temporarily on hold" by SCOTUS.   In a 5-3 decision, the Court granted an emergency stay of a 4th Circuit ruling allowing Gavin to use the boys room while the Court decides whether or not to grant review of the case.  If Court denies the request, the Fourth Circuit's decision will go into effect.  If it grants review, Gavin will have to wait several months for the case to be briefed and argued before the Court issues a decision.  Either way, his lawyers are upset that their client has to use a single stall bathroom that no other student in the school is required to use until the Court decides whether to take the case. Set against a slew of similar cases across the U.S., this case is sadly not the first of it's kind, nor does it look like it will be the last. Gavin's lawyers  stated: 

“I woke up this morning and couldn’t believe that we had to tell our client that the court considered it an ‘emergency’ to stop  him from using the restroom,” said Chase Strangio, the ACLU staff attorney who started the #LoveForGavin hashtag.