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text: by adalia woodbury on sun oct th  at  pm on friday the supreme court decided to weigh in on transgender rights in the case of gloucester county school board vs gg this gives the right wing another chance to take civil rights away from people they dont like plain and simple share on twitter print this post 
  on friday the supreme court decided to weigh in on transgender rights in the case of gloucester county school board vs gg  this gives the right wing another chance to take civil rights away from people they dont like plain and simple 
  at issue is whether a transgender student who identifies as a boy has a right to use the bathroom that corresponds with the gender he identifies with 
  last summer the court granted the school boards request to put a lower court ruling in the students favor on hold until the board filed its petition for review by the supreme court justice breyer joined the conservative justices in that ruling as a courtesy 
  the virginia school board established a policy mirroring bathroom police laws in red states like north carolina that required students to use rest rooms and locker rooms to correspond with the gender they were assigned at birth 
  in this case the district court ruled against gg by relying on a  regulation allowing schools to provide separate toilet locker room and shower facilities based on sex provided those facilities are comparable to those provided to the opposite sex 
  in january  the department of educations office of civil rights issued a letter opining that if schools separate students in restroom and locker rooms based on their sex a school must treat transgender students in a manner consistent with their gender identity 
  because of that letter the us court of appeals for the th circuit reversed the lower court ruling in favor of gg it relied on a  supreme court decision that courts generally should defer to an agencys interpretation of its own regulation 
  in reality the right wing hopes to achieve two political objectives with this case first this is about denying basic rights and dignity to people who are transgender which is consistent with their ideological opposition to rights for women poc and members of the lgbt community second the right wing is hoping to weaken federal agencies by attacking their ability to interpret their own regulations