Posted on 05/13/2016 8:04:19 AM PDT by traumer
The Obama administration told U.S. public school districts across the country on Friday to allow transgender students to use the bathrooms that match their gender identity, rather than their gender at birth.
The new guidance comes as the Justice Department and North Carolina battle in federal court over a state law passed in March that prohibits people from using public restrooms not corresponding to their biological sex.
Officials from the Education and Justice departments told schools that while the new guidance does not carry legal weight, they are obligated not to discriminate against students, including based on their gender identity.
"Our guidance sends a clear message to transgender students across the country: here in America, you are safe, you are protected and you belong just as you are," Vanita Gupta, head of the Justice Departments Civil Rights Division, said in a statement accompanying the letter sent to school districts nationwide.
The guidance contains an implicit threat that those not abiding by the Obama administration's interpretation of the law could face lawsuits or a loss of federal aid.
As a condition of receiving federal funds, the letter said, a school agrees that it will not treat any person in its educational programs or activities differently on the basis of sex.
It added that the administration's interpretation of existing regulations means that a school cannot treat a transgender student differently from other students of the same gender identity.
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these people need a good beating...
You say you want a revolution?
Another reason why we homeschool.
I’m curious how Trump handles this. Will he go along with the civilizational destroyers, or will he side with the American people?
PEOPLE! The President CANNOT legislate. This can simply be ignored.
But the government IS discriminating..
Against heterosexual boys, girls, young men and women.
This is institutionalized discrimination.. How come they are not being sued by a multi-Billion class action suit?
B.S. This Nation was built on God...even if they have taken God out of school and else where, we need to put our foot down and fight this..
The gays got their ‘rainbow’ bill thru, ok, now it’s time to stop the rest...
‘Just Say NO’ if Barky doesn’t like it, he can leave early....
Sending your children to public schools in america today, if you have the means to do otherwise, is flat out child abuse, has been for quite a long time.
BULL FREAKING S*%T!!!!!
STATES: tell the unconstitutional federal tyrants to go f@*k themselves!!!!!
This guy is such a sissified faggot.
Like the decree of a dictator.
The real lesson is Federal money always comes with strings. They use the funding to coerce the states.
Kick the Federal government out of our schools!
TRANSGENDERS: Ok! Wonderful idea!
What, for 252 days? He couldn't even get that ball rolling in that amount of time.
Next: The Obama administration will mandate seminars in all public schools that will allow students to elect the gender they want to identify with.
This will start in Kindergarten.
What could be more important?
Quartering UNCURABLE diseases in every school?
or
Bringing Islamic terrorists to murder future lines
of American children by beheading, if not selling
them as they do in England?
To the complicit GOP, all the above are wonderful,
and the hypercomplicit GOP also throws in
ObamaTRADE and a full budget with ‘green light’
for everything else.
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