Hi, this is Anne and I'm in Cambridge, Maryland and it's 5 o'clock in the morning.

I'm at the starting line where my fellow triathletes and I are about to start a 1.2 mile swim,

56 mile bike and a 13.1 mile run. This podcast was recorded at 209 pm on Tuesday, June 29th.

Things may have changed by the time you hear this, but I will be recovering from my half-iron man race.

Okay, enjoy the show!

Oh, Anne, I hope you had a great race. That's so impressive.

That is badass.

Hey there, it's the MPR Politics Podcast. I'm Susan Davis, I cover Congress.

I'm Danielle Kertzley, but I cover politics.

And I'm Nina Tottenberg. I cover legal affairs.

And Nina, yesterday the Supreme Court made some news by not giving their opinion and turning down a case.

Is it a pretty high profile case involving a transgender teenager in a battle with his school over bathroom access?

So can you remind us what this case was all about?

Yeah, this case involved a young man named Gavin Grimm and his long fight against the Gloucester County Virginia Schools,

beginning with his freshman year in high school when he identified as male and began taking male hormones.

But after he was initially allowed to use the boys' bathroom, the school board passed a rule requiring transgender students to use bathrooms corresponding to the sex that they were assigned at birth.

And since the case began, Grimm has graduated from high school. His case has gone up and down the federal court system twice.

And the Court of Appeals has twice ruled in his favor.

And now the Supreme Court has formally put an end to the case by saying, we are not going to hear the appeal from the school board.

So for his case anyway, Gavin Grimm wins.

Danielle, there seems to be a bigger picture here we should talk about.

I mean, this is something that you have followed as a political issue for some time now.

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