The Supreme Court refused to hear the case, leaving the ruling of lower courts intact.

Gavin Grimm, a transgender individual living in Gloucester County, Virginia, has won a lengthy legal battle against his local school district. As an individual transitioning from female to male, Grimm requested permission to use the male restrooms at his school, but was denied by the school board’s policy that restroom use is “limited to the corresponding biological genders.”

A win for Gavin Grimm: The Supreme Court declined to take up whether schools must allow transgender students to use bathrooms matching their gender identities, leaving a victory for Gavin Grimm intact.https://t.co/KqauregiaU

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 28, 2021

Grimm sued the school board in the lower courts of Virginia and won on the grounds that disallowing transgender individuals to use restrooms that correspond with their gender identity is a violation of the law known as Title IX, which bans all forms of sexual discrimination in schools. The school board and their lawyers attempted to escalate the case to the United States Supreme Court, but their appeal was declined without comment, leaving Grimm’s victory intact.

The Supreme Court declined to hear a case involving a transgender student’s right to use school bathrooms matching his gender identity.

This refusal to review Gavin Grimm’s case allows lower court rulings that say treating trans students differently violates federal law to stand pic.twitter.com/MQF7stH3Jb

— AJ+ (@ajplus) June 28, 2021

“Being forced to use the nurse’s room, a private bathroom, and the girl’s room was humiliating for me, and having to go to out-of-the-way bathrooms severely interfered with my education,” Grimm said. “Trans youth deserve to use the bathroom in peace without being humiliated and stigmatized by their own school boards and elected officials.”