The Supreme Court declined to take a stance on the ongoing debate over bathrooms for transgender students, by rejecting an appeal from an Indiana public school district on Tuesday. This decision comes as federal appeals courts remain divided on whether school policies enforcing restrictions on which bathrooms transgender students can use violate federal law or the Constitution.
The specific case that the Supreme Court chose not to comment on involved the Metropolitan School District of Martinsville, located about 30 miles southwest of Indianapolis. The Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had previously ruled in favor of granting transgender boys access to the boys' bathroom, an order which was upheld. However, the case differed from the ruling of the appeals court based in Atlanta, which came out against allowing transgender students access to the bathrooms that align with their gender identity.
