How 2022 Became the Year Trans Hate Went Mainstream

It was 2014, and Gavin Grimm had just told his mom that he was transgender. Gavin was almost 15, and about to start his sophomore year at a Gloucester County high school in Virginia. Before school began, he went with his mom to ask the school’s administration if he could use the boy’s restroom. Initially, the school allowed it. 

But about two months later, the school board implemented a new, restrictive bathroom policy and said that Grimm would either have to use a unisex bathroom, or use the girls’ washroom—the...