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 Department’s 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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You take the one on the right, I’ll take the one on the left....ROFLMAO!!!
Yep! Ignore him.
Woo-Hoo!
We have a deal!
Your seeing “social justice reasons” is really perverted.
Go sit in the corner and try to make sense of “social justice!”
I remember my mom taking me into the girls locker room when I was about 4. She was thinking I wouldn't notice or care since I was so young. She was wrong and I was only 4.
And another reason to vote against bond issues and incumbent school boards that promote this agenda or surrender to it
How is this madness continued? Sit back, relax a few minutes, and then use some common sense. If a person has male genitals, IT should use the Men’s Room. If a person has female genitals, IT should use the Women’s Room.
Case closed.
It is not about how you feel or how you “identify.” Those ideas are total BS.
This distraction has been caused by really sick people.
ENOUGH!
You are assuming I buy into Target’s social justice crap. Of course I don’t, it is dog squeeze. But that’s the reason they gave. Maybe I should have put it in quotes or something, like ‘gay marriage.’ But come, on, any time I see ‘social justice’ it is almost always inevitably some type of insane garbage.
Freegards
It’s a violation of our God-given and Constitutionally defined right to free association.
FUBO.
The nation is run by crazy people from the top down.
It is past time for the adults to take charge of running the nation again.
State issue. Fed keep out!
Perhaps Obama should, through the Democrats in the house, actually push forward with a legitimate HR numbered bill, codifying this latest crucial human rights initiative. He could call it the “Pedophile Initiative for Same Sex Advantages Now True” or PISSANT for short.
Image, you are a Lady attending a State Dinner at the White Hut and need to use a restroom, where do you go?
Same Lady, at a Target store, same question?
There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man’s fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call the Twilight Zone.
Wonder what the real issue is while Obama is focusing on toileting. Obama is President of the US, not king, not dictator. He can not speak and make it the law of the land. So ignore him.
There should be three types restrooms in all buildings from now on. Many buildings already have them. A men’s, a women’s and a universal or disable restroom where a caregiver can help their spouse, employer use the facility etc. Or a mother with a child etc. Transgender people can access that restroom. Okay!
Issue solved.
In the not too distant past, some "Good Ole Boys" would take these freakazoid "transgeners" out and "match up" their equipment. A lot of them are experienced turning bulls into steers.
May God help us survive each day until this PUKE is out of the White House....
Whatever. I guess the new "directive" applies only to public schools, so his other daughter won't have to deal with it.
The muslim in the WH is trying to do everything he can to start an uprising in this country so he can declare martial law and stay in office indefinitely.
Everybody stay cool until this evil thing is out of office.
No such thing as "U.S. public schools". They're state schools and some of these governors better step up before they have zero authority over their state.
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