SUPREMES CLOSE DOOR ON OBAMA’S REDEFINITION OF ‘SEX’
Tell lower court to re-evaluate ruling in light of Trump reversal
BOB UNRUH
WND.com
3/6/2017
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday closed the door on an Obama administration objective to redefine the term “sex” in federal law to include whatever gender a person may feel like on a particular day.
Barack Obama issued an order last year to public schools presuming that when Congress adopted Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, its members intended to allow boys who “identify” as girls into girls’ restrooms and showers, and vice versa.
In the case, a girl, Gavin Grimm, insisted on using the boys’ restrooms in the Gloucester school district in Virginia based on her “gender identity.”
The school district resisted, the dispute went to court, and at the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the judges granted the girl permission, based on Obama’s order.
But President Donald Trump reversed the order, and the Supreme Court, which had accepted the school district’s appeal of the 4th Circuit ruling already, sent the case back to the lower court.
“The judgment is vacated, and the case is remanded to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit for further consideration in light of the guidance document issued by the Department of Education and Department of Justice on February, 22, 2017,” the high court said in its only comment on the case.
Obama’s order ignored the rights of millions of other students to not be unclothed in the presence of someone of the opposite gender.
Obama’s move also would have opened up schools for liability should they, for example, require boys to room together on school field trips. Obama’s plan would have required a school to allow a boy to room with a girl.
“The first duty of school districts is to protect the bodily privacy rights of all of the students who attend their schools and to respect the rights of parents who understandably don’t want their children exposed in intimate changing areas like locker rooms and showers,” said Kerri Kupec of the Alliance Defending Freedom, which fought the Obama administration over the issue.
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