GLOUCESTER COURTHOUSE, Va. – The legal saga over a transgender Virginia teen’s access to the boys’ bathroom reached the Supreme Court this week when his school district appealed a recent court order temporarily allowing him in.

Incoming Gloucester High School senior Gavin Grimm was born a girl, but identifies as a boy, and is currently embroiled in a years-long lawsuit against the Gloucester school district because he alleges the district’s transgender policy violates his rights, and federal Title IX anti-discrimination laws.

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The district initially allowed him to use the boys’ restroom at school but changed course amid public outcry in December 2014 and restricted students to facilities corresponding to their biological gender. The district offered Grimm a private unisex restroom, which he refused.

Grimm sued the district with help from the American Civil Liberties Union and a U.S. District Court initially sided with the district. Grimm appealed the ruling and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit disagreed with the district court ruling, reinstated Grimm’s claim in April and returned the case to the lower court.

In June, the district court granted a preliminary injunction that allows Grimm to use the boys’ facilities for the upcoming school year as his case continues through the legal system, EAGnews reports.

On Wednesday, the Gloucester school board filed an emergency appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court that begged Chief Justice John Roberts to override the injunction, according to NBC Washington.

The district is seeking to regain control over school bathrooms before the start of school in September and argues that giving Grimm special treatment could cause “irreparable harm.”

“Depriving parents of any say over whether their children should be exposed to members of the opposite biological sex, possibly in a state of full or complete undress, in intimate settings deprives parents of their right to direct the education and upbringing of their children,” attorneys for the school board wrote.

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They also argued it’s “natural to assume” some parents may remove their children from the school if the injunction stands, CBS News reports, a situation that could potentially result in lost education funding.

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The school board wants the Supreme Court to put Grimm’s district court case on hold until the justices decide whether to review the appeals court decision. The board says it plans to file its petition for Supreme Court review by late August.

Chief Justice Roberts can act on the school board’s request alone or ask the full court to consider it. If he chooses the latter, the school board must convince five justices to be successful.

The ACLU’s Josh Block told Fox News that Grimm’s legal team is prepared to file a response, if requested by the Supreme Court. The ACLU of Virginia framed the case as one that influences “a real teenager’s life,” but did not acknowledge other Gloucester High students and their parents who are also impacted.

“It is sad that the school board members and their lawyers have so little regard for the impact their misguided actions are having on a real teenager’s life,” Guthrie Gastanaga, executive director, wrote in a prepared statement.

“We will continue to stand with Gavin and other young people suffering such cruelties and indignities.”

The case and others like it are unfolding as President Obama’s Office of Civil Rights in the Department of Education, and the Justice Department, are pressuring schools to comply with the president’s interpretation of Title IX laws, that schools must not discriminate based on “gender identity.”

Essentially, Obama directed schools to allow transgender students to use whatever facilities they choose, with the implied threat of lost federal education funding if they don’t comply.

The Obama administration is also suing North Carolina over a law that requires people to use public restrooms consistent with their biological gender.