CHARLESTON, W.Va. — State Attorney General Patrick Morrisey says he’s glad the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to review a case which would force schools to allow students to use the bathroom of the opposite sex.
“I applaud the Supreme Court for agreeing with us that it should hear such an important issue,” Morrisey said in a news release. “I believe this is a blatant overreach and hope the Supreme Court will recognize the merits of our case.”
Morrisey led 21 states last month in asking the high court to review and reconsider a panel’s decision involving a transgender student in Gloucester County, Va.
Morrisey sent a letter to all 55 West Virginia county school boards earlier this year vowing to help defend local school systems in court should the federal government threaten to defund them.
The letter stated public schools must permit transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with their chosen gender identity, and not necessarily what the letter defined as “sex assigned at birth.”
A lawsuit was filed May 25 in the Northern District of Texas contesting the federal directive.