The Supreme Court is passing on a key case involving a transgender student, and the ACLU is celebrating the news as an "incredible victory."
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear the case of Gavin Grimm, the transgender student who challenged a Virginia school board's policy that restrooms are "limited to the corresponding biological genders," NBC News reports. Lower courts sided with Grimm that this violated Title IX, the civil rights law against sex discrimination, and since the Supreme Court isn't taking up the case, Grimm's win stays in place.
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