Adams v. School Board of St. Johns County, Florida is one of a number of recent U.S. court cases addressing whether schools can refuse to allow transgender students to use school bathrooms that match their gender identity (e.g. Doe v. Clenchy, G.G. v. Gloucester County School Board). The case was filed by Erica Adams Kasper on behalf of Drew Adams, a minor at the time, against the school board of St. Johns County. The motion was filed after Drew was denied access to the boys bathroom at Neese High School. The claim was that Drew's rights were being violated because he was being discriminated against based on sex, which is prohibited by Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. Drew, a transgender boy, had been using the boys' bathrooms since his freshman year of high school, but after
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| - Adams v. School Board of St. Johns County, Florida is one of a number of recent U.S. court cases addressing whether schools can refuse to allow transgender students to use school bathrooms that match their gender identity (e.g. Doe v. Clenchy, G.G. v. Gloucester County School Board). The case was filed by Erica Adams Kasper on behalf of Drew Adams, a minor at the time, against the school board of St. Johns County. The motion was filed after Drew was denied access to the boys bathroom at Neese High School. The claim was that Drew's rights were being violated because he was being discriminated against based on sex, which is prohibited by Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. Drew, a transgender boy, had been using the boys' bathrooms since his freshman year of high school, but after (en)
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| - Adams v. School Board of St. Johns County, Florida is one of a number of recent U.S. court cases addressing whether schools can refuse to allow transgender students to use school bathrooms that match their gender identity (e.g. Doe v. Clenchy, G.G. v. Gloucester County School Board). The case was filed by Erica Adams Kasper on behalf of Drew Adams, a minor at the time, against the school board of St. Johns County. The motion was filed after Drew was denied access to the boys bathroom at Neese High School. The claim was that Drew's rights were being violated because he was being discriminated against based on sex, which is prohibited by Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. Drew, a transgender boy, had been using the boys' bathrooms since his freshman year of high school, but after someone made an anonymous complaint Drew was told he could only use a single-stall, gender-neutral bathroom or the girls' bathroom. The plaintiff argued that Title IX protections encompass gender identity, and thus policies or rules governing schools may not turn on one’s sex as assigned at birth. Adams was represented by the LGBTQ rights law organization Lambda Legal. Adams was supported in amicus briefs by over fifty organizations, including the National Women's Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League. ADL's brief made the argument that the school board's "protective concerns" were invalid because they were based on discriminatory stereotypes, which have been rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court, and that there was no evidence that use of the restroom corresponding to gender identity in the county’s schools caused any injury or harm to students. A critic of the ruling argued that sex and gender identity should be differentiated and that Adams' right therefore would not fall under Title IX protections. The bench trail was heard in December 2017 and on July 26, 2018, and the U.S. District Court Judge Timothy J. Corrigan held that Drew's rights had been violated and that the school policy violated the Equal Protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. The judge ruled that a public school may not "harm transgender students by establishing arbitrary, separate rules for their restroom use." The Federal Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit ruled in favor of Drew Adams. This position aligns with current EEOC policy on the rights of transgender employees, and with the outcome in Grimm v. Gloucester County. The school then filed an appeal of the decision again, for a rehearing en banc in the 11th Circuit Court. (en)
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