On September 10, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of our client, a transgender high school student in South Carolina, rejecting the State of South Carolina’s request for a stay of an injunction recently entered by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, which allows the student to use boys’ restrooms at school while the case proceeds in court.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has enjoined the State of South Carolina, a South Carolina school district, and other defendants from denying a transgender boy access to boys’ restrooms at school.

The Impact Fund has awarded Wardenski P.C. a $25,000 litigation grant to support the firm’s work on Doe v. South Carolina, a federal civil rights lawsuit challenging a South Carolina law that prohibits transgender students from accessing school restrooms aligning with their gender identities.

Wardenski P.C., together with Public Justice, has filed a class action lawsuit against the State of South Carolina and other defendants challenging a discriminatory state law that prohibits transgender students from using restrooms corresponding to their gender identities in public K-12 schools.