"Controversial topic these days. Yesterday, a federal appeals court ruled that public schools need to let transgender kids use the bathrooms that match their gender identity. This case has to do with a Virginia high school student who was born female but identifies as a male. School officials were totally OK with letting him use the boys bathroom. The school board not so much. A lower court ruled in favor of the school board - and the boy says he ended up just avoiding bathrooms altogether. Painful on many levels. Yesterday’s decision reverses that ruling, saying it’s sex ualdiscrimination to keep him from using the bathroom he identifies with. Meanwhile, lots of people are wondering what this means for a controversial new North Carolina bathroom law. This law keeps all trans people from going to the public bathroom they identify with - including in public schools. And since this appeals court has legal authority over NC, that part of the law could now be canceled out. Stand by."
This is from my weekly Skimm email, that has a lot to do with the LGBTQ community.
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