MORNING HEADLINES | The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a transgender boy at a Berkeley County public high school could use the boys’ bathroom during the challenge of a state law requiring students to use the bathrooms of their birth sex.
In the unsigned order, the court said the ruling, which denied a state emergency appeal of a lower court decision to allow the student to use the boys’ bathroom, applied only to the 14-year-old student and wasn’t a measure on the merits of the legal issues.
According to The New York Times , “in rejecting South Carolina’s request to bar the student from the boys’ bathroom for now, the order said the state had not cleared the high bar for securing an emergency ruling in its favor.”
State Attorney General Alan Wilson said the ruling was a te