Apple has joined 52 other companies in signing a Supreme Court brief in support of a transgender boy’s fight over the right to use the school bathroom appropriate to his gender identity, the New York Times reports. The brief is being filed by the Human Rights Campaign, a nonprofit organization that advocates for LGBTQ equality, and is asking the Supreme Court to side with transgender student Gavin Grimm in his discrimination case against the Gloucester County School Board in Virginia. Other tech companies that have signed the brief alongside Apple include Amazon, IBM, Microsoft, Airbnb, eBay, Intel, LinkedIn, PayPal, Salesforce, Twitter, Yahoo, Yelp, along with several companies from other industries, including Gap, MAC Cosmetics, Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance, Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams, Warby Parker and Williams-Sonoma. In a statement announcing the support, Human Rights Campaign president Chad Griffin said “These companies are sending a powerful message to transgender children and their families that America’s leading businesses have their backs.”
