Although the plaintiffs are expected to keep fighting, for now, it's official. The U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals
has ruled that there's nothing wrong with the Boyertown Area School District policy that treats transgender boys
(those boys designated female at birth) as boys and transgender girls (those girls designated male at birth) as girls.
There is nothing "hostile", "threatening", or "humiliating" about it, much less
illegal or unconstitutional, and the judges seemed unimpressed by all attempts to argue otherwise. Judge Theodore
McKee rejected repeated appeals to the status quo in particular, referring to Brown v. Board of Education
and retorting, "These types of cases wouldn't happen if the answer was always, 'Go back to the status quo.'"
