After a five-year legal battle, a sharply divided federal appeals court Friday upheld a St. Johns County School Board policy that prevented a transgender male student from using boys' bathrooms at a high school.
The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 7-4 decision, said the policy did not violate the constitutional equal-protection rights of Drew Adams, who was required to use a gender-neutral, single-stall bathroom or girls' bathrooms while a student at Nease High School.
The court's majority also said the policy did not violate Title IX, a federal law that prevents discrimination based on sex in education programs.
In a 50-page majority opinion, Judge Barbara Lagoa wrote that the school-board policy "advances the important governmental objective of protecting students' privacy in school bathrooms."
She said, “The school board's bathroom policy is clearly related to - indeed, is almost a mirror of - its objective of protecting the privacy interests of students to use the bathroom away from the opposite sex and to shield their bodies from the opposite sex in the bathroom, which, like a locker room or shower facility, is one of the spaces in a school where such bodily exposure is most likely to occur.”
Lagoa was joined in the majority opinion by Chief Judge William Pryor and Judges Kevin Newsom, Elizabeth Branch, Britt Grant, Robert Luck and Andrew Brasher - all of whom were appointed by Republican presidents.
Florida School District Wins Federal Court Appeal Over Trans Bathroom Fight
- Amy Mcgrotty
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