FAIRFAX, VIRGINIA — A state judge on Friday rejected a Virginia school system’s bid to stop a lawsuit alleging that its transgender policies discriminate against Christian students.
Several religious students challenged the school’s policies prohibiting the “deadnaming” or “misgendering” of transgender students, as well as policies allowing transgender-identifying students to use the bathroom of those of the opposite sex.
America First Legal (AFL), which argued the case for those students, said in a statement that the judge’s decision amounted to a “ruling that [Fairfax County Public Schools] FCPS’ pronoun policy punishing ‘misgendering’ and bathroom policy based on ‘gender identity’ violate students’ constitutional rights.”
In court filings, it said FCPS, one of the nation’s largest districts, had made its animus toward Christians clear, including that…
