“Obviously Mid Vermont is unhappy with the outcome. The court accepts without reservation the sincerity of the school's commitment to traditional views of gender and sexuality.”
-- Judge Geoffrey Crawford, U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont, opinion denying of Mid Vermont Christian School’s motion for a temporary injunction, June 11, 2024
“… whether someone truly has a sexual identity that's different from their sex that they're assigned at their birth …”
-- Unidentified judge from a three-judge panel of the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, oral arguments, Mid Christian Vermont School vs. Bouchey, Wednesday, April 9, 2025
Editor's Note: A Christian school in Vermont asked a federal appeals court earlier this week to let its sports teams play other teams in the state without jettisoning its belief that girls shouldn't compete against males.
Below is a timeline showing how Vermont has dealt with religious schools over time.
