COLUMBIA — S.C. Attorney General Alan Wilson filed an emergency appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court in a last-ditch attempt to block a single transgender teen-ager in Berkeley County from using the boys' restroom at school.

The Aug. 28 move came after a federal court earlier this month temporarily prohibited the enforcement of a state law requiring students to use the restroom corresponding with their assigned gender.

In his emergency application to the nation’s high court, Wilson argued a lower court erred in its decision blocking the state from enforcing language in the state’s 2025-26 budget requiring schools to enforce the bathroom restrictions or risk losing 25 percent of their funding.

That decision came after one student, a Berkeley County teenager known in court documents as Jo

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