US Supreme Court rejects appeal to limit transgender students

The appeal was rejected by the Supreme Court (AP/Patrick Semansky, File)

The US Supreme Court has declined to take up an appeal from parents in Oregon who want to prevent transgender students from using changing rooms and bathrooms of the gender with which they identify, rather than their sex assigned at birth.

The case came from a school district near Salem, Oregon’s capital city. The federal appeals court in San Francisco had upheld a Dallas, Oregon, school district policy that allows transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms that align with their gender identity.