The Supreme Court entered the debate on transgender rights: It will hear a case on a student’s use of the boys’ bathroom in Virginia

The Supreme Court entered the debate on transgender rights: It will hear a case on a student’s use of the boys’ bathroom in Virginia

Friday, October 28, 2016 4:05 PM EDT

The Supreme Court said it would decide whether a transgender boy may use the boys’ bathroom in a Virginia high school.

The legal question in the case is whether the Obama administration was entitled to interpret a regulation under Title IX, a 1972 law that bans discrimination “on the basis of sex” in schools that receive federal money, as banning discrimination based on gender identity.

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