Do the Privacy Interests of the Majority Outweigh Those in a Small Minority?
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, the federal court that sits neatly below the U.S. Supreme Court, has ruled that the trial court was correct when it refused to prevent a school district from allowing transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with the students' gender choice as opposed to the sex they were determined to have been born with.
September 06, 2018 at 12:37 PM
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, the federal court that sits neatly below the U.S. Supreme Court, has ruled that the trial court was correct when it refused to prevent a school district from allowing transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with the students' gender choice as opposed to the sex they were determined to have been born with.
The plaintiffs were a group of high school students who believed that the school policy violated their constitutional rights. Whose constitutional rights are more important; students concerned about their privacy rights or those who identify as transgender?
Such clashes of controversy have not been unusual. The civil rights era generally was followed by many cases being filed where the plaintiffs claimed that they were victims of reverse discrimination. Should a white person be denied entry to a college because affirmative action has placed African-American students in the white man's seat? Generally speaking, the U.S. Supreme Court has frowned upon affecting one person's rights in order to advance the cause of another.
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