How Trans Rights Could Fare on Trump's Supreme Courthttp://www.advocate.com/commentary/2016/11/21/how-trans-rights-could-fare-trumps-supreme-courtThe Advocate/By Greg Rolen 11/21/2016
"In a nation of laws, it is apparently inevitable that the most highly personal, private, and soul-wrenching human functions boil down to a legal technicality. Such is the case with Gavin Grimm. Although Gavin rests at the epicenter of the sociological debate, he is a real person. As the father of five teenagers, it is striking to me that Gavin is simply a 17-year-old transgender boy. While other teenagers worry about prom and graduation, he has already been diagnosed with gender dysphoria and gone through hormone therapy. In 2014, before entering high school, Gavin and his parents met with high school staff and explained that he would be attending as a male. Gavin was provided separate restroom facilities but quickly found them stigmatizing and isolating. The principal allowed him to use the boys' restroom. Although Gavin had absolutely no incidents using the restroom, parents learned of a transgender boy using the boys' facilities and quickly contacted the Gloucester County School Board. In November 2014, board member Carla Hooks proposed a policy that communal restroom use be based on the gender assigned at birth, and those with gender identity issues be provided an alternative private facility."
