RICHMOND, Va.: A federal appeals court on Wednesday denied a request for a full-court review of a ruling that a Virginia school board’s transgender bathroom ban is unconstitutional.
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond rejected a request from the Gloucester County School Board for a rehearing to review a ruling that the board’s policy discriminated against Gavin Grimm, a transgender student who was barred from using the boys bathrooms at Gloucester High School.
The board’s policy required Grimm to use restrooms that corresponded with his sex assigned at birth female or to use private restrooms.
A federal judge in Norfolk ruled against the school board last year, a ruling that was upheld last month by a three-judge panel of the 4th Circuit.
The school board had argued that laws protect against…
