Grimm V. Gloucester County Case Summary

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The case Grimm v. Gloucester County is about a transgender student G.G. or Gavin Grimm, who during the 2013-2014 school year was diagnosed with gender dysphoria. Gender dysphoria is a “strong, persistent feelings of identification with the opposite gender and discomfort with one’s own assigned sex that results in significant distress or impairment”(Psychology today 2018) . Grimm had at first gained permission from the principal to use the boy’s restroom during his 2014-2015 school year. G.G. went to the boy’s restroom for two months with no problem until some of the county residents found out and started contacting the Gloucester County School Board so that he could be banned from doing so. The board at first wanted to install additional privacy …show more content…
How we should not discriminate others and judge people because of their religion, sex, race and etc. Also talks about how we should stand up for justice and equality and that in the “Courts and in the Congress, we must denounce hatred, discrimination, and bigotry in our schools, communities, workplaces and coast to coast across America”(Targeted News Service). This article is relevant to the Grimm v. Gloucester court case because it is talking about the rights of transgender and well, everyone in general that we do not need to discriminate no matter what. We need to stand up for our youth and what we/they believe in, no matter the cause or what it is really. In the article it states that “LGBT people have the full protection of the law in school, in the workplace - and every place. That's why the Congress must also pass the Equality Act, to finally end discrimination in employment, education, housing, credit, jury service, and public accommodation for LGBT people by asserting the full power of the Civil Rights Act that guards our democracy”(Targeted News Service). Saying that LGBT are supposed to have our protection and that we should take into account that everyone is equal and needs to be treated the …show more content…
Kansas decided to join after a federal appeals court in VA declined to reconsider its ruling that had “upheld the legal reasoning behind the administration’s policy”(States News Service). It was talking about the Grimm v. Gloucester Case. They had hoped it would resolve the issue quickly by confirming the “traditional understanding that Title IX applies to biological sex, not gender identity”(States News Service). Saying that they do not believe that that Title IX covers gender identity, but only the sex given at birth. "The bottom line is that Kansas will challenge the Obama administration's attempt to unilaterally rewrite Title IX in an unprecedented way that further expands federal power”(States News

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