Attorney blasts courtโs ruling in St. Johns County transgender bathroom fight, school superintendent โpleasedโ
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 boysโ bathrooms at a high school.
Appeals court weighs Florida transgender bathroom case
In a closely watched case that could have national repercussions, a federal appeals court on Tuesday peppered attorneys with questions in a lawsuit over whether a Northeast Florida high school should have prevented a transgender male student from using boysโ bathrooms.
St. Johns County school district loses appeal against transgender student
ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. A federal appeals court said Florida transgender students need to be allowed equal access to restrooms that match their gender identity. It was a battle brought on by Drew Adams, a former St. Johns County student at Nease High School. Following the district court judges ruling, the St. Johns County school district appealed the decision, to the Atlanta-based 11th Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals. High school is hard enough without having your school separate you from your peers and mark you as inferior. He successfully sued the St. Johns County School Board in 2017.
Appeals court to consider bathroom use by transgender student
Circuit Court of Appeals that they should overturn the ruling and let the school district restrict students to the bathroom matching their at-birth sex to protect the privacy of other students. The 11th Circuit could become the first federal appeals court to issue a binding ruling on the issue, which has arisen in several states. โThis case is only about me, a boy, being allowed to use the boysโ bathroom,โ Adams said after the hearing, echoing what Borelli told Pryor. โDifferences between the sexes are real and it necessitates this kind of separation between the sexes,โ lawyer Jeff Slanker told judges. Borelli told judges the districtโs policy would โheap discrimination on transgender students.โโThere is no recognized right in the law to not have to share space with transgender students,โ she argued.