SCOTUS makes big decision about transgender bathroom rights case

The front of the U.S. Supreme Court is seen early Friday, Feb. 19, 2016 in Washington. Republican opposition to letting President Barack Obama replace Antonin Scalia quickly sparked a constitutional clash over the president’s right to fill Supreme Court vacancies. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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The Supreme Court is handing a transgender teen’s case back to a lower court without reaching a decision.

The justices said Monday they have opted not to decide whether federal anti-discrimination law gives high school senior Gavin Grimm the right to use the boys’ bathroom in his Virginia school.

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The case had been scheduled for argument in late March. Instead, a lower court in Virginia will be tasked with evaluating the federal law known as title IX and the extent to which it applies to transgender students.

The high court action follows the Trump administration’s recent decision to withdraw a directive issued during Barack Obama‘s presidency that advised schools to allow students to use the bathroom of their chosen gender, not biological birth.

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