The transgender bathroom battle is headed to the Supreme Court, sooner or later
A federal appeals court’s decision forcing a Virginia school district to allow boys into girls’ bathrooms, and vice versa, has commentators expecting it to be among the next big ‘culture war’ issues to hit the Supreme Court. On May 31, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld its panel's initial ruling last month on transgender girl Caitlyn Hope “Gavin” Grimm's lawsuit to use the boys' bathroom and facilities at her high school. The Fourth Circuit includes North Carolina, so has a direct bearing on that state’s controversial bill, HB 2. The panel made a 2-to-1 ruling last month that a Virginia high school had to allow Caitlyn, a 16-year-old girl suffering from gender dysphoria, to use all the school's intimate facilities designed for males. Caitlyn, who began identifying as a boy in 2014, has not undergone sex "change" surgery but she has legally changed her name to "Gavin" and begun taking hormones to give her a deeper voice. On