that policy was challenged by gavin grimm who said it stigmatized him and made him feel ashamed. lower courts ruled that the board's policy violated the federal law known as title ix, which prohibits discrimination based on sex in school programs, and today the supreme court declined to take up the school board's appeal the court did not rule on who's right so this sets no national president, but it does leave gavin grimm's victory in place the decision may be coming back here legal challenges are now brewing over transgender athletes in school sports lester >> pete williams at the supreme court, thank you. >>> a jarring contrast on progress on covid this country and new and troubling setbacks in other parts of the world. here in the u.s., almost 180 million are now at least partially vaccinated our catie beck has details. >> reporter: while record numbers of americans prepare to celebrate the 4th and return to post pandemic freedom, a growing number of countries are seeing them disappear >> hopefully we can conquer this. >> reporter: the dangerous delta variant sending sydney, a

gavin grimm spoke to democracy now! in 2017. >> when you are in an environment where you are not being affirmed and were being kept apart from your peers, not only does that send a negative message to you, but a negative message to your peers and conveys a precedent for how they will treat you. so i think it is very important we talk about rights a bathroom usage for trans youth, especially because if you cannot use the bathroom, cannot participate in public life and that is really what is at the center of this. amy: california will restrict state-funded travel to arkansas, florida, montana, north dakota, and west virginia, bringing to 17 the number of states sanctioned by california over their discriminatory policies toward lgbtq+ people. california attorney general rob bonta cited recently-passed laws banning transgender youth from playing sports and blocking access to life-saving gender-affirming healthcare. >> there is a coordinated attack against our fundamental civil rights. and the fact is, when states discrimina

that's what happened in gavin grimm's case.leave his lower court rulings intact. this doesn't set a national precedent because the supreme court is basically not done anything, it's not taken the case. it's saying, no, we're not going to take the case. the lower court ruling stands. it's not a decision on the merits. i think this issue will come back to the supreme court because there are lower court challenges over the issue of transgender athletes in school sports. so the court is probably going to have to encounter this yet again. you may recall last term the supreme court said title 7, a separate law, does ban discrimination against transgender people in employment. and the biden administration has said that same logic applies to title 9 but the supreme court didn't enter into the fray on that. >> pete, real quick, there was another news making moment today, if you will. the supreme court justice clarence thomas stating that federal laws against marijuana may no longer be necessary. what prompted these remarks? what might t

with m now, gavin grimm. thank you for being on the show. your reaction, how are you feeling?emotions wrapped up in here, the fact that it took as long as it did to confirm the basic humanity of trans youth is truss frustrating. but the victory is sht for and won't foe underappreciated by me. >> is there any part of you that wish the court had taken up your case and issued a ruling on it down the road? >> no, no. i think that that is dangerous and scary. and i think how it worked out was fine by me. >> it does according to our legal analysts and our experts on this, it is pretty specific to your instance, to your case. i wonder what your message is to other trans students in schools around the country this morning. >> my message is that i'm sorry that you live in a country where you have to fight for things like this and hopefully if you live in the fourth circuit that that is no longer your reality. and for any trans youth still doing through this process and who is still barred from the restroom, we are fighting for a better future and it will be here. >> how do you expect t

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an appeal by a virginia school board of a twenty-twenty ruling that allowed transgender student gavin grimmo use the restroom that matches his gender identity. graham sued the school board after his local public high public high school refused to let him use the boys restroom, a virginia appeals court determined that graham is protected under federal law that prohibits discrimination in education, many of you in the supreme court's decision not to take up the case as a major victory for the lgbtq community. one of the supreme court's most conservative justices says federal marijuana laws don't make sense. >> today justice clarence thomas issued a statement saying that a 2005 ruling from the court which upheld federal marijuana possession laws may be out of date right now. 36 states allow medical marijuana use and 18 also allow recreational medical marijuana and recreational marijuana use. still ahead tonight, history reborn, we sit down with some of the biggest rock n roll stars of the 70's and 80's. as we celebrate one of the most famous recording studios in the country right here in the b