COLUMBIA, S.C. (WACH) — South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson and Superintendent of Education Ellen Weaver are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to block an injunction that would allow a student who identifies as male to use the boys’ restroom.
Late Thursday, Wilson and Weaver filed an emergency application requesting the Court to halt a Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals injunction that requires a Berkeley County school to permit the student access to the boys’ restroom.
The injunction does not overturn South Carolina’s Bathroom Privacy Law but makes an exception for the one student.
South Carolina passed this law to protect the privacy and safety of every child in our schools,” Attorney General Wilson said. “But activist judges on the Fourth Circuit threw out common sense and the will of the people to give one student a special exception. What about the rights and safety of all students? Where does it stop? This is judicial activism at its worst, and we’re fighting back. South Carolina will not stand by while ideology is put ahead of children’s safety, I am taking this fight all the way to the Supreme Court.”