Giving Compass' Take:

• On Tuesday, federal judge Wright Allen sided with Gavin Grimm, a transgender student who was trying to use the boy's bathroom at his high school. The Gloucester School Board wanted to dismiss the case, but instead, the judge ruled against them, in favor of continuing. 

• The article says that Grimm did not have problems with other students in terms of using the boy's bathroom. The issues arose when parents at the school found out. What does this tell us about the generational disconnect that individuals may have when trying to understand transgender students?

• Learn about the protections Minnesota put in place for transgender students. 

A federal judge on Tuesday sided with a Gloucester transgender student on whether he should have been able to use the bathroom of his choice in the public schools -- with the judge rejecting the Gloucester School Board's bid to dismiss the case.

U.S. District Judge Arenda L. Wright Allen sided with the student, Gavin Grimm, who contends in a federal lawsuit that a Gloucester County School Board policy requiring him to use a separate bathroom -- rather than the boys' rooms -- stigmatized him and turned him into an outcast at Gloucester High School.

But the judge's ruling, while significant, is unlikely to be the last word in the case -- with the ultimate outcome expected to be determined by higher courts. The case still has the potential to set a legal precedent -- one way or the other -- in the heated social debate over transgender issues.

"After fighting this policy since I was 15 years old, I finally have a court decision saying that what the Gloucester County School Board did to me was wrong and it was against the law," he said in a statement released by the ACLU of Virginia, which has represented Grimm in the lawsuit. "I was determined not to give up because I didn't want any other student to have to suffer the same experience that I had to go through."

Read the full article about discrimination against transgender students  by Peter Dujardin at Governing magazine