The Supreme Court on Tuesday passed up a chance to intervene in the debate over bathrooms for transgender students, rejecting an appeal from an Indiana public school district.

Federal appeals courts are divided over whether school policies enforcing restrictions on which bathrooms transgender students can use violate federal law or the Constitution.

In the case the court rejected without comment, the Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an order granting transgender boys access to the boys’ bathroom. The appeal came from the Metropolitan School District of Martinsville, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) southwest of Indianapolis.

  • @Rapidcreek
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    I’ve proven I can’t remember this kind of stuff, but I’ll try.

    • Optional
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      That’s how it’s done, people.

    • RedSeries
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      2211 months ago

      That’s all anyone can ask of you. It’s appreciated!

    • Cogency
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      You can also edit your comments, it would be preferred if you would change it so that you aren’t using what many of us consider a slur.

      • hobbicus
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        3011 months ago

        Would it not be better to leave it as is to teach others? Censoring serves no purpose here and it would prevent people from learning

        • Cogency
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          You can edit in a cross out with two tildas ~ surrounding the word and put the correct word next to it if that’s your style. But it’s still somewhat akin to using the n word for some of us.

          It’s not our word for how we describe ourselves/ what we transition for, when we transition, and it can have nothing to do with sex, mostly, we can be any sexuality.

          That old language centers everything on the fact that people see us as sexual fetishes and not people. Transition is about gender, of which sex sometimes is not even a part, asexuality exists too. Thus the word transgender

          • hobbicus
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            811 months ago

            Not disagreeing about the use of the word, just erasing a teaching moment. Fair enough regarding the editing choice though

            • Cogency
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              And yet it’s still the most upvoted comment, keeping a slur up that hurts many trans people, but sure the teaching moment is more important than being inaccurate and insulting, but keep patting yourself on the back.

              • hobbicus
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                1411 months ago

                It’s the most upvoted comment because many people don’t know it’s a slur. The only way that will change is with calm teaching moments like these.

                • Cogency
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                  It’s also upvoted because it is a slur and bad actors like to chip in their support knowing it’s a slur.

                  • hobbicus
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                    1411 months ago

                    If you’d rather be angry than supportive then good luck

      • Cornpop
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        811 months ago

        Alternatively you can collapse the comment and you no longer have to see it.

      • @[email protected]
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        While this is true, editing posts to avoid controversy is weird. They wrote what they wrote and noone can change that. Can’t unsay something, too. This also makes this conversation difficult to read for future passerbys.