#gavin grimm

[theofreakingbell]

I haven't seen anything about this yet on here so here goes

some of y'all may remember Gavin Grimm for suing his Virginia school district who was refusing to let him, a trans man, use the men's restroom. They (Gavin and his lawyers from the ACLU) finally won the case recently after over 6 YEARS when the Supreme Court refused to hear it, meaning the lower court's ruling in Gavin's favor stands. That is great news, however, all of the money (1.3 million USD) from the payout was for covering legal costs. None of it actually went to Gavin.

(well technically not literally none he apparently got a single dollar which just seems tremendously rude imo)

Gavin Grimm to Get Laughable Amount of Money in $1.3M Legal Payout

In 2015, a Virginia school board banned trans student Gavin Grimm from using the boys' bathroom. He was finally vindicated this year.

In May of 2021 Gavin, who has epilepsy, suffered several seizures, and was in a coma for 4 days. Since then he has been unable to work or drive and has struggled to make ends meet. A GoFundMe was set up to try to help cover his housing costs and has raised enough to help pay for an apartment for him and his cat for a bit, but he is still in need of our help. A few days ago he and a friend also set up an Amazon wishlist with various things that would be needed for the apartment, such as kitchen equipment, cat food, furniture, pillows, cleaning supplies etc

GAVIN GRIMM’S HOUSING and LIVING EXPENSES FUND, organized by Vanessa Ford

Gavin Grimm devoted years of his life to fighting for trans youth across… Vanessa Ford needs your support for GAVIN GRIMM’S HOUSING and LI

✨ https://smile.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/18CCTAFD08F59/ ✨

(proof via Gavin's twitter for the wishlist)

a lot of the things have been covered but a lot are still needed so if any of y'all have some money to spare right now and want to help Gavin out, please do :) and please spread the word, I haven't seen many posts about this anywhere yet

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Trans trailblazer Gavin Grimm now struggles with homelessness & mental disabilities - LGBTQ Nation

He made headlines for fighting his school district's bathroom policies, but now he's fighting for his adulthood dignity.

Daniel Villarreal at LGBTQ Nation:

Gavin Grimm, the now-25-year-old trans man who made headlines for suing his Virginia school district over its transphobic bathroom policies, is struggling with mental health challenges, poverty and looming homelessness, according to The Guardian. Grimm sued the district after the Gloucester County School Board voted to ban him as a 15-year-old from using the boys’ bathrooms, even though he had already been doing so for months without incident. After years of litigation, he eventually won a landmark federal decision asserting the constitutional right to protection against educational discrimination.

But even though the school district ended up settling Grimm’s case for $1.3 million in legal fees and other legal costs, the settlement didn’t provide him with stable housing or financial security. He only received $1 as a symbolic share of the settlement. To settle for personal damages, Grimm would have had to have given the school district’s lawyers access to medical records showing the impacts of the school’s discrimination on his health. After years of court battles, he didn’t like enduring another fight. As his court victories mounted, Grimm gained notoriety: Trans actress Laverne Cox told people to Google him at the Grammys, Whoopi Goldberg interviewed him on The View, and in 2017, he served as the grand marshal for New York City’s Pride parade. But he hasn’t been invited to any paid appearances as the LGBTQ+ community’s focus has largely moved on to others.

“I’m someone who has had worldwide visibility. I represent an outer crust of privilege most people will never see, and I cannot make ends meet no matter how hard I try,” he told The Guardian. He is one of the 8% of trans adults who have gone unsheltered over the last year. Grimm now suffers from complex post-traumatic stress disorder and stress-induced seizures in addition to having autism which affects his sensory processing. In May 2021, he spent four days in a coma after a grand mal seizure which seriously impaired his ability to work or drive. Combined, these have prevented him from keeping a job or finishing higher education, even though a generous benefactor helped fund it. “The PTSD at its core is about not being safe or understood, being rejected, and the adults in my life not acting responsibly,” he said. “In high school, I was picked over and hyper-analyzed. I was tortured, harassed and bullied.” While he receives some financial support from disability payments, his mother, and an ongoing GoFundMe crowdfunding campaign, he recently moved out of his apartment in Newport News, Virginia.

His mother has begun caring for his 19-year-old cat Rascal, but Grimm has begun couch-surfing with friends, occasionally staying with his mother, and spending some nights at a local dog park. He avoids houseless shelters, fearful of discrimination.

Trans male Gavin Grimm, who won his bathroom lawsuit, is now struggling with homelessness and mental disabilities.

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The Guardian: Gavin Grimm won a landmark victory for US trans youth. He now struggles to survive

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[sarcasticcynic]

Supreme Court won’t hear dispute over bathrooms for transgender students

Monday's order denying review in the case means Gavin Grimm's victory in the lower courts remains intact.

In 2015, Gavin Grimm (who is transgender) filed a lawsuit against his school board challenging its new policy limiting students to using bathrooms based exclusively on their biological sex at birth. The court granted the Board’s motion to dismiss his case, and he appealed. In 2016, the Court of Appeals reversed, and directed the lower court to apply the proper standards.

The Board again demanded that the court dismiss Mr. Grimm's lawsuit. In 2018, the court this time denied the Board's motion:

"The Policy in question assigned restrooms based on 'biological gender,' not physical characteristics. This term has not been accepted by the medical community, because 'sex'–the 'attributes that characterize biological maleness or femaleness' … is distinct from 'gender,' or the 'internal, deeply held sense' of being a man or a woman. … Given the Policy's disregard for these distinctions, its use of the term 'biological gender' functioned as a proxy for physical characteristics that a student may or may not have had. The term allowed the Board to isolate, distinguish, and subject to differential treatment any student who deviated from what the Board viewed a male or female student should be, and from the physiological characteristics the Board believed that a male or female student should have. ... discrimination on the basis of transgender status constitutes gender stereotyping because 'by definition, transgender individuals do not conform to gender stereotypes.'"

In 2019, the court ruled in favor of Mr. Grimm, and the Board appealed. In 2020, the Court of Appeal upheld Mr. Grimm's victory, calling the Board's actions "a special kind of discrimination against a child that he will no doubt carry with him for life." The Board then asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene.

The Court has declined. Mr. Grimm's victory is now final.

[catherinebkrause]

Supreme Court won't revive school's transgender bathroom ban

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a Virginia school board's appeal to reinstate its transgender bathroom ban, handing a victory to transgender rights groups and a former high school student who fought in court for six years to overturn the ban.

[francis-forever]

Start calling it what it is, to their faces. When a grown adult is throwing a tantrum bc now a trans student can use the right bathroom, and they keep talking about a teenager's genitals, they are

Perverts.

[itgetsbetter]

Gavin Grimm Just Won His Case for Trans Bathroom Rights

A federal court judge has ruled.

“I feel an incredible sense of relief.” We are so proud of all that Gavin has accomplished! 🌈

[drag-tween]

Chelsea Manning’s lawyer knows how to fight trans discrimination—he’s lived it

Chase Strangio has been an important force behind gay marriage and transgender bathroom rights

Article from May-June 2017. And a lot has changed since then, with Strangio in the middle of most of the fights for trans rights.