Gavin Grimm sued the Gloucester County, Virginia School Board in 2015 after the school he attended adopted a policy requiring students to use bathrooms and locker rooms provided for “their corresponding biological genders.”  A separate policy also challenged by Grimm was that school transcripts for students would identify them by their biological gender.  

Public institutions of higher learning (IHL) are not immune from controversies arising from the same divisions plaguing our country as a whole.  In some instances, these controversies have resulted in litigation against IHL’s.  In others they have led to accreditation investigations and censure along with high profile criticism. 

On his first day in office, President Biden signaled that he would follow through on a campaign promise to revamp the prior administration’s rules and regulations pertaining to civil rights for the LGBTQ community and Title IX’s prohibition against sexual discrimination, specifically sexual harassment in educational programs and activities.