Virginia appeals court overturns anti-trans bathroom rule, could North Carolina fall next?
by Xeni Jardin from on (#1B305)
A high school in my home state of Virginia discriminated against a female-to-male transgender teen boy by forbidding him from using the boys' restroom, a federal appeals court ruled today. The case is a win for human rights, and could change what happens just one state to the south, in North Carolina. There, a recent and similarly weird bathroom law just went into effect, discriminating against LGBT people and hearkening the good old southern days when "colored" Americans were forced to use separate bathrooms, far away from where they could contaminate any white people with their otherness.