An Indiana school district’s short-hair policy that applies only to boys who want to play basketball constitutes sex discrimination, a federal appeals court ruled on Feb. 24.
The divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled for a boy, identified as A.H., who wanted to play on a junior high school basketball team. The student wanted to keep his hair longer than the policy permitted. Read the court’s opinion here.
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