U.S. Supreme Court to hear transgender bathroom case

transgender high school student Gavin Grimm poses in Gloucester, Va. The Supreme Court will take up transgender rights for the first time in the case of a Virginia school board that wants to prevent the transgender teenager from using the boys' bathroom at his high school.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear a Virginia case with the potential to resolve nationwide questions over which bathrooms transgender students can use.

The Justices said they'd consider the Gloucester County school district's request to avoid compliance with an Obama administration directive that public schools let transgender students use bathrooms and locker facilities of the gender they identify with.