A divided Supreme Court has temporarily blocked a lower court order that had cleared the way for a transgender high school student to use the boys' bathroom in a Virginia public school.
Lawyers for the Gloucester County School Board asked the court to preserve the status quo and allow the school's policy to remain in effect once the school year begins in September.
The school board said the policy was meant in part to protect the "basic expectations of bodily privacy of Gloucester County students." It stressed that the student, Gavin Grimm, would have access to three single-user restrooms as well as a restroom in the nurse's office.
Grimm's lawyers say the policy violates an anti-discrimination law.
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