WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court declined Monday to take up an appeal
from parents in Oregon who want to prevent transgender students from
using locker rooms and bathrooms of the gender with which they
identify, rather than their sex assigned at birth.

The case came from a school district near Salem. The federal appeals
court in San Francisco had upheld a Dallas, Oregon, school district
policy that allows transgender students to use bathrooms and locker
rooms that align with their gender identity.

Parents sued over the policy in 2017, saying it caused embarrassment
and stress.

A lower court refused to block the policy and the 9th U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals affirmed that ruling, writing that the school
district did not violate students’ constitutional rights or a law that
protects people from discrimination based on sex in education
programs.

-- The Associated Press