Transgender Students Face Tough Questions in Bathroom Law Appeal

The families of three transgender former high schoolers were pressed by the Tenth Circuit Thursday to show why it should revive their lawsuit challenging Oklahoma’s law limiting public school restrooms to their sex assigned at birth.

Chief Judge Jerome A. Holmes asked the former students’ attorney, Robert Gianchetti with Covington & Burling LLP, to show how Senate Bill 615 violates the Equal Protection Clause of the US Constitution ensuring fair treatment when it requires restroom spaces in schools be provided for both boys and girls.

“How is this a sex-based classification?” Holmes, an appointee of George W. Bush, asked during ...