President Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court, federal appeals court Judge Neil Gorsuch, has not ruled on cases involving LGBTQ rights in the past, but if he's confirmed to the nation's highest court, he certainly will in the future.
If confirmed, Gorsuch will likely rule on a case involving Gavin Grimm, a transgender teenager whose fight against his Virginia high school's bathroom policy exemplifies the nationwide "bathroom bill" debate over whether trans people can use the bathrooms corresponding to the gender they identify with or must use bathrooms that correspond to the gender shown on their birth certificates.
The case, Gloucester County School Board v. G.G., hinges on a challenge by a Virginia school district to an Obama administration Title IX mandate that schools allow trans students to use bathrooms corresponding to their gender identity.
The Gloucester County School Board adopted a policy in 2014 requiring trans students to use private bathrooms. Grimm's lawyers from the ACLU challenged that policy, filing a motion for a preliminary injunction that was rejected by a district court. That initial ruling was overturned by a U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and the Gloucester County School Board in turn appealed the case to the Supreme Court.
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