(WSPA) -- South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson and Superintendent of Education Ellen Weaver announced Friday morning that the state has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block a Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals injunction affecting bathroom privacy protections in schools.

According to the attorney general's office, the emergency application, filed late Thursday, seeks to stay the Fourth Circuit’s order requiring a Berkeley County school to allow a transgender student who identifies as male to use boys’ restrooms. This injunction, issued just before the school year began, does not overturn state law mandating that public school bathrooms be separated by biological sex but grants an exception to one student.

You can read the brief here.

Wilson described the Fourth Circuit as an outlie

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