User:Koolaid1018/G.G. v. Gloucester County School Board

Gavin Grimm had been assigned female at birth and presented as female until high school whereupon he started to present himself as male, including using the boys' restroom at the school. Parents of other students at the school complained to the Gloucester County, Virginia school board, leading to the board passing a regulation requiring students to use the restroom equating to their biological gender and for transgender students to use one of three unisex bathrooms that has been installed. After the regulation was adopted, Grimm continued to face gender-based discrimination by the school board even after he began hormone therapy (which altered his physical form), underwent reconstructive chest surgery, and received an official Virginia state I.D. card in supplement with his Virginia birth certificate listing his gender as male.

Grimm, under these conditions, found himself the subject of ridicule by the other students, and through his parent, sued the school board on grounds of Title IX discrimination and the Equal Protection Clause in June 2015 in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. In legal court proceedings, Grimm asserted he had been allowed to use the men's bathroom for seven weeks without incident and had faced gender-based discrimination after the regulation of the Gloucester County School Board was implemented. Prior to the hearing, on December 18, 2014, the ACLU had already filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), based on the nature of the school board's restroom policy. Grimm's case was concurrent to other similar cases in the country over transgender bathroom right usage, and the Obama administration's Department of Education had sent out guidance (the Ferg-Cadima letter) to all school boards but otherwise unpublished in Federal Register in January 2015 that stated that "a school generally must treat transgender students consistent with their gender identity." Despite this position from the Department of Education, the District Court dismissed the suit on the basis that under Title IX, the school had provided comparable facilities as directed under. The court also rejected Grimm's request for a preliminary injunction to use the boys' restroom while litigation proceeded.