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ARTICLE VIEW:
Supreme Court declines request from South Carolina to let it enforce
trans bathroom ban
By John Fritze, CNN
Updated:
4:33 PM EDT, Wed September 10, 2025
Source: CNN
The Supreme Court on Wednesday declined for now to let South Carolina
enforce a ban on transgender students using with their gender identity.
The court denied an emergency request from the state that sought to
block a decision from a federal appeals court that barred school
officials in a district outside of Charleston from enforcing the ban
against a transgender boy who was suspended from school for using the
boys’ bathroom.
Three conservative justices – Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil
Gorsuch – said they would have granted South Carolina’s request.
The court stressed in its unsigned order that the decision was “not a
ruling on the merits of the legal issues presented in the
litigation.” Rather, the court said, “it is based on the standards
applicable for obtaining emergency relief from this court.”
The court’s brief order dealt only with what happens with the student
in the short term while the case continues to work its way through
federal courts.
It was the latest of several legal cases involving LGBTQ Americans to
work its way up to the high court during a moment when transgender
Americans are facing political and cultural setbacks. Earlier this
year, for instance, a divided Supreme Court allowed President Donald
Trump’s administration to in the military.
Four years ago, the Supreme Court let stand a decision from the 4th US
Circuit Court of Appeals that allowed a to use a bathroom that
corresponded to his gender identity. Though the court’s decision to
not hear that case did not set nationwide precedent, the Grimm ruling
remains controlling precedent in the 4th Circuit – which covers South
Carolina.
In the new appeal, South Carolina officials pointed to the Supreme
Court’s high-profile opinion in late June that let stand a Tennessee
law that for minors seeking to transition to match their gender
identity. They also noted that the high court agreed this summer to
decide whether from playing on sports teams that align with their
gender identity.
The state argued that those two moves had undermined the outcome in
Grimm.
The South Carolina legislature approved the bathroom ban in a series of
budget bills, requiring that single-sex school bathrooms be used only
by students of that sex assigned at birth.
A student identified in court papers as John Doe, who was in eighth
grade when the ban was first enacted, sued along with his parents,
alleging that the provision violated federal law and the
Constitution’s equal protection clause. After the Supreme Court
agreed to hear the transgender sports case, a federal district court
put the bathroom litigation on hold.
On appeal, the 4th Circuit unanimously sided with the student and his
family, blocking the ban’s enforcement against him.
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