Are Schools Allowed to Have Single-Sex Bathrooms and Locker Rooms?

I can’t believe we have to ask this question, but here we are

July 14, 2025

Happy Bastille Day!

First, a few news items from the land of gender woo.

Here is a video posted by Gays Against Groomers of a professor at Vanderbilt University openly explaining to students that “bottom surgeries” (i.e., the destruction of people’s perfectly healthy genital organs) are “money makers” for hospitals. Way to say the quiet part out loud!

Here is a story from the UK about a woman who left her husband after he decided that he’s a woman, and was later ordered by a judge to pay for half of his “sex change” surgery (i.e., the creation of a fake vagina).

You really can’t make this stuff up.

In better news, here is an outstanding and very powerful ad by XX-XY Athletics taking back Title IX. In the ad (which happens to be 37 seconds long), female athletes recite the 37 words contained in Title IX and then repeat the words, “Title IX is mine.” It ends with, “UPENN IS JUST THE BEGINNING. SUPREME COURT IS NEXT.”

By UPENN IS JUST THE BEGINNING, it’s referring to an agreement UPenn entered into with the Department of Education on July 1, promising to fix the mess it made by allowing Lia (Will) Thomas to compete in women’s swimming. I talked about the agreement in a podcast episode titled, “Penn Caved.” By SUPREME COURT IS NEXT, it’s referring to the US Supreme Court’s decision to take up the cases of Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. BPJ, where state laws protecting female-only sports are on the line. I wrote about that earlier this month too.

In this post, I’ll elaborate on an interesting story brewing at the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals about whether schools are allowed to maintain single-sex bathrooms. Apologies in advance: this post will be a bit law-nerdy. As I’ve said before, TERF law-nerding is my idea of a good time, and my favorite thing to do on a Sunday (but I took a break to watch the men’s final at Wimbledon, which is why you’re reading this on Monday, even though I wrote it on Sunday). I wrote about the case of DP v. Mukwonago for paid subscribers, plus some weird bits about a “trans” vegan murder cult, earlier this month, and have been thinking a lot more about the case since then.

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