Thu Jan 5, 2023 – 5:07 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) – The St. Johns County School Board in Florida was within its rights to limit use of school restrooms to actual members of their designated sex, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in a 7-4 vote.
The Christian Post reported that the court ruled in the case of Drew Adams, a female ex-student who “identified” as male and was eventually barred from male restrooms in ninth grade after being allowed to use them for six weeks. The school says it limits restroom access by biological sex for privacy purposes and offers gender-confused students the accommodation of a gender-neutral, single-stall facility. But that didn’t satisfy Adams, who sued the district for alleged discrimination.
“The school board’s bathroom policy is clearly related to — indeed, is almost a mirror of — its objective of protecting the privacy interests of students to use the bathroom away from the opposite sex and to shield their bodies from the opposite sex in the bathroom, which, like a locker room or shower facility, is one of the spaces in a school where such bodily exposure is most likely to occur,” Judge
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