By Gavin Grimm, Kyle Lukoff
The true story of Gavin Grimm, a transgender teenager who fought all the way to the Supreme Court just to use the right bathroom at his school.
This is the real story of Gavin Grimm. When Gavin was in high school in Virginia, he told the school he was a boy, and at first things went fine, his principal even said he could use the boys' bathroom. Then a teacher and some students objected, and the school took that permission away, sending Gavin to use a separate bathroom at the nurse's office. Gavin didn't think that was fair, so he stood up for himself, and his case went all the way to the Supreme Court, changing things for transgender children everywhere.
It takes a real court case and tells it at a child's height: not the legal machinery, but the plain unfairness of a boy being told he couldn't use the right bathroom, and his choice to say something. It's written by Gavin Grimm himself with Kyle Lukoff, and illustrated by J Yang, all of them transgender, so it comes from lived truth. For a family raising a child to speak up when something's wrong, this is a concrete, true example of a young person who did.