The U.S. Supreme Court's rejection of a transgender bathroom case this week won't likely end discussions about transgender rights at the South Dakota Capitol.

The Supreme Court declined to take on the case Doe v. Boyertown Area School District, leaving the Pennsylvania school district's policy intact allowing transgender students to use restrooms and locker rooms consistent with their gender identity while allowing all students the option to use private facilities.

The Court's rejection of the Boyertown case is "a huge victory" for transgender students and will allow school districts to continue to have policies allowing students to use restrooms that correspond with their gender identity, said Libby Skarin, policy director of the ACLU of South Dakota.

The Boyertown case sends "a great message" to transgender South Dakotans that "they deserve protection" and courts understand that they deserve to live as equals, Skarin said. The lesson of the Boyertown case is that school administrators and teachers are doing the right thing by protecting transgender students, she added.

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South Dakota lawmakers haven't been successful in passing bills in recent years requiring transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms or participate on high school sports teams that correspond with their biological sex rather than their gender identity.

But that won't stop them from trying in the future.

Republican Rep. Fred Deutsch, whose 2016 transgender bathroom bill passed the Legislature before being vetoed by then-Gov. Dennis Daugaard, said he believes it's only a matter of time before the Supreme Court agrees to hear a case regarding transgender bathroom use. It'll also continue to be an issue that the state Legislature grapples with as long as it continues to be an issue in South Dakota, he said.

"Everybody deserves to be treated with dignity and respect, and that includes students that struggle with their beliefs, whether they're a biologic boy or biologic girl," Deutsch said.

However, he said, students also need to have personal privacy from the opposite sex in a restroom or locker room.

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The Family Heritage Alliance, which has most recently supported the transgender athletes bill, was disappointed that the Supreme Court declined to hear the Boyertown case because it highlights a situation that occurs across the country where students reach out to school officials "asking for their privacy to be protected, only to be told no," according to a FHA statement.

"School districts must find ways to compassionately care for every student while also protecting the privacy of each student, and the discussion of student privacy will inevitably continue until that balance is reached," the statement read.

Skarin hopes legislators think about the Boyertown case and recognize that federal courts have repeatedly sided with transgender students.

"My hope would be that we don't see any discriminatory legislation in the future," Skarin said. "It's been five long years of legislation that targets transgender kids, and I hope that perhaps this case could be the end of that."

The Boyertown case shows that the argument isn't true that transgender students using a bathroom corresponding with their gender identity harms their classmates, Skarin said.

"I think it underscores what we have been saying in South Dakota for years and years," she said, "and that is that transgender students deserve to go to school and be treated fairly and equally on the same terms as all of their peers."