The U.S. Supreme Court set aside Monday (March 6) a ruling in favor of a transgender high school student and returned it to a lower court for reconsideration in light of the Trump administration's recent withdrawal of a directive issued under President Obama.
The justices issued the order returning the case to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., barely three weeks before they were to hear oral arguments in the matter. The arguments were scheduled for March 28. The high court's one-sentence order came after the Departments of Education and Justice issued a Feb. 22 guidance rescinding Obama administration policy.
The Trump administration action reversed an Obama policy expressed in both 2015 and 2016 that determined the ban on sex discrimination in Title IX of the education amendments of 1972 encompasses gender identity. Trump's departments said in their Feb. 22 joint statement...
