In Adams v. School Board of St. Johns County, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals held the school board's policy of segregating bathrooms according to a student's biological sex did not violate the law. That ruling differs from what other courts have determined, however.
Kathrine Beck Johnson, a research fellow at the Family Research Council, says the 11th Circuit ruling created a “circuit split” in the federal court system. That means the case is more likely headed to the U.S. Supreme Court in the future.
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The school board was well within its legal right to require students to use a restroom that aligns with their biological sex, she tells AFN.
In a related op-ed published by Fox News, attorney Ian Prior agrees with Johnson’s prediction about a future high court ruling due to the split decisions.
“If so,” he writes, “the left’s radical push for open bathrooms in K-12 education may well be a sad relic of the past.”