Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul joined a coalition of 23 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief in the Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit in support of transgender rights.
A former student at Gloucester High School in Virginia sued the Gloucester County School Board in 2015 — when he was still a student — for discrimination that banned him from using the common male restrooms at his high school.
Raoul and the coalition argued that transgender individuals have the right “to live with dignity, be free from discrimination, and have equal access to education, employment, housing, public accommodations, and other necessities of life.”
Nearly 1.5 million people in the United States — including approximately 150,000 teenagers —identify as transgender.
Joining Raoul in filing the brief are the attorneys general of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Washington and the District of Columbia.
