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 is the standard the Court will apply.

Under the intermediate scrutiny standard, the School Board must show that “‘its gender classification is substantially related to a sufficiently important government interest.’”, 663 F.3d at 1316 (quoting , 473 U.S. at 441). The justification for its policy must be “exceedingly persuasive.”, 518 U.S. 515, 532–33 (1996). “Moreover, the classification must substantially serve an important governmental interest, for in interpreting the equal protection guarantee, [the Supreme Court has] recognized that new insights and societal understandings can reveal unjustified inequality that once passed unnoticed and