The Supreme Court on Tuesday passed up a chance to intervene in the debate over bathrooms for transgender students, rejecting an appeal from an Indiana public school district.

Federal appeals courts are divided over whether school policies enforcing restrictions on which bathrooms transgender students can use violate federal law or the Constitution.

In the case the court rejected without comment, the Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an order granting transgender boys access to the boys’ bathroom. The appeal came from the Metropolitan School District of Martinsville, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) southwest of Indianapolis.

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[–] 149 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (27 children)

Why would anyone care where people go the bathroom? Where do you think transsexuals have been going all these years? What nonsense.

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  • [–] 84 points 2 years ago (16 children)

    Hey! I appreciate your support, trans rights are human rights!

    In the future, could you please use transgender instead of transexual? The latter is a really dated term and ties a gender and societal issue to sexuality. While they may be closely associated, they're not the same thing and any little bit helps break that association.

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  • [–] 91 points 2 years ago (22 children)

    I've proven I can't remember this kind of stuff, but I'll try.

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  • [–] 37 points 2 years ago* (6 children)

    They have a whole fantasy conspiracy they've cooked up where we're sneaking in to women's restrooms to do human trafficking and dark web revenge porn and shit.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    I don't have anything to back it up but I think it's a large group's correlation between trans/gay == pedophilia. When I was a kid, my mom(southern baptist republican) didn't differentiate between gay people and illegal sexual activity like molestation(this was in the 80s). If my mom had been told that a guy that viewed himself as a girl wanted to use the girl's restroom, she would have immediately decided it was because he wanted to do something terrible to the girls.

    I think the main reason for that is because her God told her gay people were going to hell.. It made it easy for her to view them as evil.

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    [–] 74 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    In the case the court rejected without comment, the Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an order granting transgender boys access to the boys’ bathroom.

    So, meanwhile, transgender individuals win. At least that's something. 👍🏻

    With any luck, this will hold untill the rest of the nation follows suit.

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Only in those circuits where the court has allowed students to use the bathroom of choice. There are several circuits that voted to deny this. Your rights now depend on where you live in the country until either the SCOTUS one days takes it up or some sort of Title IX changes force it.

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  • [–] 56 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Wouldn't want to reveal any bigotry during an election year.

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  • [–] 52 points 2 years ago* (13 children)

    I wish there were more non-gendered restrooms.

    The one's I've been to usually has shared sinks and has stalls that fully enclosed, as in you can't look under the stall. Most restrooms in the US, you can see under the stall in front and from an adjacent stall.

    And the urinals is usually in a separate area of the restrooms.

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    [–] 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    If the lower courts are divided, isn't it the job of the Supreme Court to make it clear?

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    They kinda have made it clear though. By rejecting the appeal, they're saying that the 7th Circuit Court's decision stands.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

    Except the Fourth Eleventh Circuit went the other direction with an almost identical Florida school policy, so the question of "Is it ok under the US Constitution for schools to force transgender students to use a particular bathroom?" has a different answer depending on where you live, which is the exact kind of thing the Supreme Court is supposed to deal with.

    e; Whoops, had the wrong court and wrong case. That's been updated now, but for the record here's the older case I had been linking to

    https://www.courthousenews.com/11th-circuit-rules-florida-schools-transgender-bathroom-policy-unconstitutional/

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    [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    upheld an order granting transgender boys access to the boys’ bathroom.

    Why is it only focusing on 1 gender?

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago

    Probably because the lawsuit was filed on behalf of a transgender boy.

    The case originally required John R. Wooden Middle School in Martinsville to allow a seventh-grader identified only as A.C. to have access to the restroom while litigation continued.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    I wonder why the Pope told them to take a pass for now.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Always think its odd they want someone like this or this in the women's washroom...

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