A federal judge has ruled that a Virginia school district engaged in “sex stereotyping” by not allowing a female student who identifies as male to use the boys’ restroom. U.S. District Judge Arenda Wright Allen, appointed to the bench by then-President Barack Obama, declined on Tuesday to declare as moot the legal challenge filed in 2015 by a former Gloucester High School student who goes by the
name Gavin Grimm. The case, which went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, had been sent back to the federal district court last August by the Fourth Circuit court of Appeals to determine “whether this case has become moot by reason of Grimm’s graduation.” Instead of Wright Allen dismissing the case, as per the request of the Gloucester County School Board, she ordered both sides to enter into a settlement phase. READ MORE
