Archive: 2025/09

Supreme Court keeps hold on S.C. bathroom rule, allowing transgender boy to use boys' restroom

The Supreme Court declined South Carolina's request to pause a lower court order that lets a transgender ninth grader keep using the boys' restroom while his lawsuit moves forward. The unsigned order is not a decision on the merits. Three justices dissented. The case tests a state rule that ties school funding to enforcing bathroom use by sex at birth.