COLUMBIA, S.C. (WSPA) -- South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson and Superintendent of Education Ellen Weaver said Friday morning that the state has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block a 4th 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 4th Circuit’s order requiring a Berkeley County school to allow a transgender student who identifies as male to use boys’ restrooms. The 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 4th Circuit as an outlier

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