From the ACLU, this is at Liberty.

I'm Emerson Sykes, a staff attorney here at the ACLU and your host.

In 2014, Gavin Grimm was a high school sophomore in Gloucester County, Virginia.

He had recently come out as transgender to school administrators, who initially indicated they'd respect his gender identity.

But following protests from members of the community, the school board reversed course and banned him from using the boys' restroom.

That kicked off a high

profile legal battle over the rights of transgender students that continues to this day. With us today

is Gavin Grimm himself. Now 20 years old, Gavin is a college student, an ACLU client, a sought-after

speaker and writer, and an inspiring leader in the fight for trans youth.

Gavin, thanks very much for joining us today. Welcome to the podcast.

Thanks for having me. Happy to be here. Gavin, your case has been going on for more than four years now.

You initially lost in the district court and then won on appeal. It almost went up to the

Supreme Court until the Trump administration intervened at the last minute.

And I know the case is ongoing to this day. Can you just briefly summarize what it is that you're asking the court to decide here?

Yes, so we were in court July 23rd for the district court, and our arguments that day day we had a couple of things that we brought

with us. First and foremost, I have a high school transcript that formerly designated me as

female. We had been asking the school for a very long time to change that document to reflect my

legal information, which is that I'm a man. All of my legal documents describe me as a male, as a man,

and despite producing these documents to the high school, when I still attended the school,

they absolutely refused to issue me a transcript that designated me as male,

only offering one that designated me as female. And so that was part of our asking court,

was that I got to have a transcript that was correct.

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