Here comes the victory for a long fight put up by trans students and allies against discriminatory school laws. The U.S. Supreme Court has handed transgender students and allies a victory by declining to hear a case on whether Indiana schools can block students from using restrooms that match their gender identities. The Court’s refusal leaves in place a lower appeals court ruling that upheld the rights of trans students’ rights to access the correct bathrooms. In August, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit heard a case involving three trans boys attending schools in Martinsville and Terre Haute, Indiana. Their middle and high schools blocked their access to the boys’ restroom even though the state has no law banning trans students from using the correct facilities. This marks at least the second time that the U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear a case on trans student bathroom bans, leaving in place a victory for trans rights. In 2021, the court declined to review a court ruling in favor of Gavin Grimm, a trans male student, after the Gloucester County School Board in Virginia tried to create a policy to block him from using the boys’ restroom. The district court ruled that the school board’s policy violated Title IX as well as the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution. However, Indiana has recently passed anti-LGBTQ+ laws allowing schools to forcibly out trans students to their potentially unsupportive parents and a law prohibiting the instruction of “human sexuality” in preschool through third grade. #Trans Rights