Bathroom foofaraw: transgender rules.

• Author: Shackford, Scott
• Position: Citings - Brief article

It may take a Supreme Court decision to decide where Gavin Grimm may relieve himself.

Grimm, a transgender teen in the Gloucester County, Virginia, school system, sued for the right to use the boys' restrooms. The school board resisted, implementing a policy that students must use either unisex bathrooms or bathrooms that match their "biological sex."

In a May letter, the Obama administration advised educators that it believes Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 requires public schools, when offering sex-segregated facilities, to accommodate students' gender expression. But several states are resisting this interpretation.

Two court actions in August have put the administration's efforts on hold. The state of Texas convinced a...