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Obama Decrees ALL Public Schools Must Allow Transgender Bathroom Use
Daily Caller ^ | Blake Neff

Posted on 05/12/2016 10:15:39 PM PDT by Strac6

The Obama administration will send a letter to every public school district in the country Friday warning them that they must allow students to use whatever bathroom and locker room corresponds to their stated gender identity, or face a federal lawsuit.

The decree, sent jointly by the Department of Justice and the Department of Education, comes just a few days after North Carolina and the federal government sued each other over the state’s recent law governing bathroom use in public buildings. It won’t be a new federal law, but will instead reflect the Obama administration’s interpretation of existing federal anti-discrimination law.

In particular, the decree is based on Title IX, the 1972 law prohibiting sex discrimination in schools that receive federal funding. While the drafters of the law may not have known it at the time, the Obama administration’s position is that the law covers discrimination based on gender identity as well as physical sex.

“A school may not require transgender students to use facilities inconsistent with their gender identity or to use individual-user facilities when other students are not required to do so,” the letter says, according to The New York Times, which obtained a copy.

Currently, federal courts have not conclusively settled whether, and to what degree, sex discrimination laws cover matters of gender identity as opposed to physical sex. But the Obama administration appears optimistic that an aggressive approach will succeed, especially after an April court ruling favored a transgender Virginia girls who sued for the right to use a boys’ bathroom.

The letter says that schools must immediately respect a student’s new gender identity as soon as it is declared by their parent or guardian. Schools are not allowed to require that a student provide a medical diagnosis to justify the change, and they also cannot require a student to legally change their gender.

To assist schools in implementing the new policy and help those made uncomfortable by it, the letter includes a 25-page document of “emerging practices,” with suggestions such as erecting privacy curtains in locker rooms for those who need extra privacy.

Obama’s new order will without a doubt enrage many Republicans who have argued that transgender bathroom policies will allow perverted men to prey upon women in bathrooms and locker rooms. A few such incidents have already occurred.

In February, for instance, a Seattle man used the city’s now transgender bathroom ordinance to enter a women’s locker room and begin stripping while young girls were using it. When confronted, he said the law gave him the right to be there, and he was never identified or arrested.


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Last gasp from this American hating..., I’ll stop there.

Dig the boots in.


21 posted on 05/12/2016 10:54:22 PM PDT by 80skid
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To: Strac6

If every school in the country violated his decree, he could not possibly hire enough lawyers to prosecute every school. And he will be gone by the time any got to trial.


22 posted on 05/12/2016 10:55:31 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: Jack Hammer
The oaf in the White House has clearly confused his title of office with that of Emperor.


23 posted on 05/12/2016 10:57:37 PM PDT by henbane
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To: Jack Hammer
The oaf in the White House has clearly confused his title of office with that of Emperor.

What's Congress going to do about it?

24 posted on 05/12/2016 10:59:19 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Amendment10

Lawless Obama isn’t the real problem concerning this issue.

The real problem is Congress. This is because corrupt, state sovereignty-ignoring Congress has the constitutional authority to stop from doing this unconstitutional action with public school restrooms but will probably refuse to do so, not that public schools will comply with Obama’s unlawful edict.

Remember in November !

When patriots elect Trump, they also need to elect a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will work within its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers to not only support Trump, but also put a stop to unconstitutional federal interference in state affairs, the Obama Administration promoting constitutionally unprotected LGBT agenda issues in this example.

Also consider that such a Congress would probably be willing to fire state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices.


Spot on!


25 posted on 05/12/2016 11:02:31 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 (Election is about Liberty versus Tyranny and National Sovereignty versus Globalism👍)
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To: Strac6
Yeah yeah yeah, Mr Sumohadiwijojo decrees a lot of things.

Will be glad when a military deposes this despot.

26 posted on 05/12/2016 11:04:22 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist (Genesis 1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed,)
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To: Strac6

The 0bamanation would never subject Sharia or Bacteria to this; maybe the Wookster though..


27 posted on 05/12/2016 11:06:41 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: sheik yerbouty

LOL

Not certainly at the Sidwell Friends (sp?). I prefer "Sharia" and "Malaria": both things he has promoted under his Reign of Terror.
28 posted on 05/12/2016 11:09:13 PM PDT by SunLakesJeff (All Mass Has Gravity. Gravity, however, is subject to Judicial Review.)
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To: Strac6

Let them register with the school after a proved condition observed by a psychologist for at least a year to start with.

That would remove perverts IMO.

Or let their be a family bathroom for one in each school.


29 posted on 05/12/2016 11:17:26 PM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

“What’s Congress going to do about it?”

That’s a sarcastic joke, right?

Congress is for ornamental purposes only. They sit around getting rich from donors by doing nothing the people want.


30 posted on 05/12/2016 11:17:54 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast
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To: Scott from the Left Coast
That’s a sarcastic joke, right?

Of course it is. They've done nothing and it's emboldened Obama to this point.

31 posted on 05/12/2016 11:22:47 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: rawcatslyentist

They won’t. Get that fantasy out of your head. The time for that was the minute he was elected in the first place. When his family wasn’t put on a private plane for a one-way return trip to Kenya (hopefully with the pilot bailing out over the ocean) and a general going on national TV saying “we’re not going to let you civvies destroy your own nation, pick someone else” all hope of the military outing Obama was gone.


32 posted on 05/12/2016 11:40:25 PM PDT by Laser_Ray (Another nifty idea)
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To: Strac6

Sadly, so few parents CARE about this crap!! Let’s see just how many stand up against this! They are SO AFRAID to speak up against this evil because Suzy or Jimmy might be given a bad grade by some leftist teacher!


33 posted on 05/12/2016 11:53:19 PM PDT by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Amendment10

Obama is Law-less because Republican “leaders” and Americans are BALL-LESS!!


34 posted on 05/12/2016 11:54:25 PM PDT by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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Pepper spray. Let the Title 9’s fight over who the ‘real’ victim is.

Good grief I’m so tired of this crap.


35 posted on 05/13/2016 12:14:38 AM PDT by Titan Magroyne (What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.)
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To: Strac6; MarchonDC09122009; jobim; Amendment10; DoughtyOne; Jane Long; catnipman; All

I would think that under the law stating “gender identity” that “any 9th Grade boy” would NOT be able to walk into the girls locker room or bathroom. A person LIVING a gender identity dresses and acts in ways that are not those of “any boy”. They would be known to school counselors, would clearly be known to be different by other students, and probably subject to past teasing and harassment. This would not be chosen lightly. Any smart ass boy who decided to be transgender for a day would undoubtedly be disciplined by any sensible school administration.

Trump, who probably controls more public rest rooms than any or all other Presidential candidates would know if the transgender/bathroom thing was a problem, and he says it is not. Why blow this issue up and make it one more thing Trump has to deal with?


36 posted on 05/13/2016 12:25:11 AM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: Strac6; All

PERVERTS ARE NOT A GENDER.

THRY ARE PERVERTS.


37 posted on 05/13/2016 12:27:24 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: gleeaikin
"Any smart ass boy who decided to be transgender for a day would undoubtedly be disciplined by any sensible school administration.

Oxymoron----"sensible school administration".

Such an animal might have existed once upon a time, but is now extinct. Killed by subversion of teachers colleges, who have long been brainwashing future teachers and school administrators.

38 posted on 05/13/2016 1:28:00 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel)
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To: Ann Archy

“Obama is Law-less because Republican “leaders” and Americans are BALL-LESS!”...........

Says it all!!


39 posted on 05/13/2016 2:40:42 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: Strac6

He should have told a sob story about how his wife Michael has a hard time going into the mens room when they first met.


40 posted on 05/13/2016 3:06:25 AM PDT by castlegreyskull
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