This School Keeps Fighting to Discriminate Against Trans Kids

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🗓️ 28 May 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Gavin Grimm has been challenging a policy at his former high school that requires transgender students to use separate bathroom facilities. On Tuesday, the case landed in federal appeals court. Jess and Imani break down the arguments and explain why the school's pleas to keep discriminating are so horribly misguided. If you'd like to support Boom! Lawyered, text "BOOMGIVE" to 44-321 or go to https://rewire.news/boomgive today!

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0:00.0	Hello, fellow law nerds.
0:09.0	Welcome to another episode of Boom Lawyard, a rewire. Dot News podcast hosted by the legal
0:14.0	journalism team that thinks Black Lives Matter.
0:17.2	I'm Ymani Gandhi.
0:19.0	And I'm Jess Piclo.
0:20.7	Rewire. News is dedicated to bringing you the best
0:23.4	reproductive rights and social justice news, commentary, and analysis on the web. And the team
0:28.7	legal podcast is part of that mission. So a big thanks to our subscribers and a welcome to our new
0:33.7	listeners. So, Jess, do you remember the Gavin Grimm case? Oh, sure, yeah. Gavin's the high school
0:40.2	student who sued his school district over its policy that required students used bathrooms that
0:45.3	align with their biological sex rather than their gender identity. His was one of the first big
0:50.7	transgender rights case in this country. God, that case was a while ago.
0:55.6	I mean, I think maybe 40 lifetimes ago, if I'm being exact. Well, what if I told you that the case
1:01.5	is still happening? Get out. I will not get out. I can't get out. There's literally nowhere for me to
1:07.4	go, even if I wanted to, which I don't. Okay, fair. But for real,
1:13.1	Amani Gavin's case is still happening? How?
1:16.6	Ah, fuck me if I know.
1:20.5	Sorry. But yeah, it's still happening. And in fact, that's what we're going to talk about
1:26.5	in this week's episode.
1:30.8	Gavin's case has been going on for years now.
1:31.7	Why?
1:35.4	And what does that say about the fight for trans rights in the courts?
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