COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - South Carolina has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block an injunction forcing the state to abandon its longstanding bathroom privacy protections, the attorney general’s office says.

Attorney General Alan Wilson and Education Superintendent Ellen Weaver filed an emergency application on Thursday asking the nation’s highest court step in and block a Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals injunction that forces a Berkeley County school to allow one transgender teen who identifies as male to use boys’ restrooms .

That teen, identified in court documents only as John Doe, filed a lawsuit against the state of South Carolina, the state’s Board of Education, the Department of Education and the Berkeley County School District.

The injunction only applies to that one single st

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