Supreme Court Declines Appeal From Christian School in Transgender Housing Case

The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear an appeal from a Missouri Christian university that filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration over its transgender housing policy.
The justices issued a brief, unsigned order declining to take up a case filed by the College of the Ozarks, which appealed a lower court’s decision that found the university had no standing to challenge the policy. That court, as well as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit, ruled that the school lacks standing because the federal government never tried to enforce the mandate against the school.
On the day President Joe Biden took office in early 2021, he signed an executive order that told federal agencies to interpret sex-discrimination provisions in federal laws. Weeks later, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) issued a memo (pdf) that updated the 1968 Fair Housing Act (FHA), claiming anti-discrimination laws can protect transgender individuals throughout the federal government….}