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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Dec 7, 2020

The U.S. Supreme Court declined today to take up an appeal from parents in Oregon who want to prevent transgender students from using locker rooms and bathrooms of the gender with which they identify, rather than the gender assigned at birth. The case originated in Dallas, Oregon, where the school district allowed transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms that align with their gender identity. Opponents of the policy sued. A lower court refused to block the policy and the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed that ruling. The Supreme Court’s action allows those rulings to stand, the Associated Press reports.