The case of Ohio around a transgender student at TIPP City using bathrooms, which suited her sexual identity, was disputed by the Federal Court of Appeal due to the ban on a state bathroom. But Aclu of Ohio He still perceives the opinion of the majority as a victory.
In 2022, a group of Ohio parents sued Bethel Local School District, which is located north of Dayton. Parents claimed that the bathroom policy of the school district was a violation of their religious freedom and parental rights.
A year later, the lower federal District Court stated that parents’ claims were invalid, because since then the high school has installed a bathroom with a single occupation, which everyone could operate. If the girl Cisgender felt uncomfortable with the girl of Trans using a shared bathroom, the student Cisgender can instead operate the second bathroom.
Parents appealed to the Court of Appeal of the Sixth District of the USA, which announced that the case was disputed on August 26, because since then the Trans student left the district, and the state ban on the bathroom was signed in November 2024.
However, regional judges R. Guy Cole Jr. And Karen Nelson Moore, both appointed former President Bill Clinton, as well as judge Joan Larsen, the denominator of President Donald Trump, wrote in their opinions that if Ohio Republicans did not adopt the ban on the bathroom, the court, unanimously recognized the constitution of Bethel’s bathroom policy.
“We think that when it was, the politics was constitutional, if it was rationally associated with a justified government goal,” Cole and Moore wrote.
Larsen wrote a separate opinion, agreeing with the ruling, but she thought Cole and Moore interpreted the latest decision of the US Supreme Court Mahmoud against Taylor “narrowly.” She thinks Mahmoud Can be interpreted to stretch the school environment.
“All non-urchy school principles-who are not clearly” educational “-can disturb the religious education of their children,” Larsen said. “Regardless of whether politics applies in a school class, dining room or toilet, it may still be basically disturbed by parents’ rights to vaccinate their children.”
The Supreme Court ruled in Mahmoud An accident that districts must allow parents to withdraw their children from the curriculum that could violate their religious freedom. Although there are concerns online that the Scotus case can expand to the school environment itself, in addition to instructional content, ACLU with OHIO managing legal director David Carey said that the ruling from the sixth circumference shows that this shows that it shows it Mahmoud It may not stretch so far.
“It’s not clear how far Mahmoud He goes – he said. “Even if you want to put it on Mahmoud extends to school conditions such as using the toilet, [Trump appointee] Judge Larsen agreed [saying]”Listen, they offered resignation, so what are you complaining about?”
. Aclu from Ohio intervened in the lawsuit in 2023. The opinion is “sweet -bitter” now that the ban on the bathroom is adopted, but is still an crucial win, even if it is petite, said Carey.
“An important precedent is to determine that no one has the constitutional right to forced discrimination against transgender students,” he said. Ding
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