The following report is by The Hill:
The justices in a brief order denied a request from a central Indiana school district to hear the case, which centers around a now-teenage transgender boy, identified in court documents as A.C., who was barred from using the boys restrooms at his former middle school.
The refusal to take up the case, which had no noted dissents, leaves unresolved a split among the nation’s federal appeals courts as to whether school districts are barred from enacting policies prohibiting transgender students from using bathrooms that align with their gender identity.
Transgender students have filed lawsuits across the country challenging their districts’ policies, contending they violate the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause and Title IX, the federal civil rights law prohibiting sex-based discrimination.
But the Supreme Court has shown a reluctance to wade into issues implicating transgender protections.
In 2021, the court similarly declined to weigh in on a transgender bathroom dispute. The justices last year declined to intervene to enforce West Virginia’s transgender athlete ban. And in June, the high court declined to disturb a ruling favoring a transgender woman who contested she was unlawfully deprived of her hormone treatment in jail.
Backed by 19 Republican state attorneys general as well as conservative and religious advocacy groups, the Metropolitan School District of Martinsville had hoped to use its case to convince the conservative-majority court that the time had come to step in.
“Not surprisingly in a diverse and divided nation, local jurisdictions have resolved this question differently,” wrote Paul Clement, a conservative legal heavyweight who represents the school district and has argued more than 100 cases before the Supreme Court.
And not surprisingly in a litigious society, these disputes have made their way to federal courts. The federal courts have proven as divided as local school boards.
Clement told the justices.
In a 2021 lawsuit filed on behalf of A.C. and his parents by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Indiana, attorneys for the family argued that A.C., while a student at John R. Wooden Middle School, was “caused irreparable harm” after he was denied access to the boys restrooms and locker rooms.
School staff routinely referred to A.C. using female pronouns despite protest from his mother and stepfather, according to court documents, and a request for A.C. to join the boys soccer team was denied at least twice.
A federal judge in April 2022 granted A.C’s request for a preliminary injunction.
The overwhelming majority of federal courts — including the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit — have recently examined transgender education-discrimination claims under Title IX and concluded that preventing a transgender student from using a school restroom consistent with the student’s gender identity violates Title IX.
District Judge Tanya Walton Pratt wrote.
On appeal, A.C.’s case was consolidated with another challenge involving two transgender boys — identified in court documents as B.E. and S.E. — who similarly sued their Indiana school district after they were denied access to boys restrooms.
Each of the three boys has legally changed his name and amended his birth certificate to identify him as a boy.
In its August decision, a three-judge panel for the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals wrote that because the plaintiffs “appear to be boys in the eyes of the State of Indiana … then it would be contrary to Indiana law for the school districts to treat A.C., B.E., and S.E. as though they are not boys and to require them to use the girls’ bathrooms and locker rooms.”
The boys are likely to succeed on their claims of sex discrimination, the panel wrote, but added that the Supreme Court is likely to intervene.
“Litigation over transgender rights is occurring all over the country, and we assume that at some point the Supreme Court will step in with more guidance than it has furnished so far,” the panel wrote at the time.
But A.C., represented by his mother because he is a minor, contended that the Supreme Court had no jurisdiction to hear the appeal. A.C. has graduated from middle school, making the lower ruling at issue moot, he argued.
“There are no facts in the record about A.C.’s or other transgender students’ use of the restrooms in the high school A.C. now attends, beyond the fact that some transgender students are allowed to use restrooms associated with their gender identity on a case-by-case basis,” the ACLU of Indiana wrote in court filings.
At least nine states have enacted laws or policies that bar transgender people from using facilities consistent with their gender identity in K-12 schools, according to the Movement Advancement Project, a nonprofit group that tracks LGBTQ laws. Attempts by Indiana lawmakers to pass similar legislation were thwarted by Democrats in each of the last two legislative sessions.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment.
Proverbs 21:7
The Supreme Court never wants to actually do righteous judgment, and instead rule in favor of the evildoers. The Courts have been heavily corrupted for a very long time, and this is just another example; on top of the recent cases of them not willing to rule on the Biden administration vaccine mandates, and in the recent instance of them ruling Texas needs to tear down their razor wall.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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What happens when some student identifies as a dog and just wizzes on wall, is that ok too?
The Supreme Court is full of Roman Catholics; go figure
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This may show up twice, but it didn’t post the first time I wrote it, but there’s no way to delete on this website.
Well we already knew the world is quickly on its way to hell in a handbasket, and these lazy, scared judges are helping it along. They’re afraid to upset the system or it might affect them in their jobs, so they go along with the evil, not caring about the outcome, only about themselves and their paychecks. There will be a day of reckoning very soon for them.