Public Justice Statement in Response to South Carolina’s Request that Supreme Court Intervene in Transgender Student’s Appeal

Public Justice Statement in Response to South Carolina’s Request that Supreme Court Intervene in Transgender Student’s Appeal

Public Justice’s statement in response to South Carolina’s request that the Supreme Court of the United States intervene in a transgender student’s appeal:

“South Carolina wants the Supreme Court to take the extraordinary remedy of intervening in an ongoing lower court appeal – all because the state wants to stop one ninth grader from using boys’ restrooms while that appeal proceeds. This case does not present the sort of emergency that would justify such intervention. As the Chief Judge of the Fourth Circuit recently observed, ‘there’s zero evidence that [our client’s] use of boys’ restrooms presents event a remote possibility of harm to anyone. But the evidence of state hostility toward him overwhelms.’ Indeed, no classmate has ever complained about our client using boys’ restrooms. Yet South Carolina is rushing to the Supreme Court to get a permission slip to subject him to state-mandated discrimination at school, including the school discipline that drove him out of middle school last year. The Supreme Court should deny South Carolina’s unusual request.”

– Alexandra Brodsky, Litigation Director for Public Justice’s Students’ Civil Rights Project