Posted on 02/21/2017 12:53:33 PM PST by drewh
Justice Department officials plan to issue new guidance on protections for transgender students that will effectively reverse Obama-era recommendations and ensure those issues are decided at the state level going forward.
"That's an issue that the Department of Justice the Department of Education are addressing, and I think there will be further guidance coming from [Justice Department] in particular, with respect to not just the executive order but the case that's in front of the Supreme Court," White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Tuesday.
The Supreme Court is slated to hear oral arguments late next month on a case involving a transgender teen from Virginia who sued the local school board for the right to use the men's bathroom on campus despite being born a female. The debate over transgender "bathroom bills" gained increasing attention late last year after the Obama administration sent guidance to public schools saying they should allow transgender students to use whichever bathroom matches their gender identity.
"The president has maintained for a long time that this is a state's right issue and not one for the federal government," Spicer said when asked for Trump's position on the hot-button issue. "So while there will be further guidance coming out this, I think that all you need to do is look at what the president's view has been for a long time."
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The Trump administration decided last week not to mount a legal challenge against a nationwide injunction that has blocked schools from letting transgender students use bathrooms that do not correspond with their biological sex.
During the campaign, Trump himself called the controversial North Carolina bathroom bill "very strong" and suggested he would allow transgender individuals to use either restroom while visiting his skyscraper on Fifth Avenue.
I just noticed your tag line. What a wonderful thing to say! I’m going to try to keep that in mind today, and see how much I can accomplish. Thanks for the motivation.
Good Point. It is refreshing to see a President respect the 10th amendment. Hope he keeps on with that. Turn the powers back to the states where they belong.
The best in my lifetime.
I think he is better than Reagan if he can keep this up.
Competing for George Washington.
Pray for President Trump’s safety.
It does not allow a functioning male to 'claim' to be transgendered falsely for nefarious purposes as the Democrats/Leftists/Liberals foisted on America.
To surgically transgender is to Chase the Wind and reap the Whirlwind IMHO.
Hopefully March 30th doesn’t make that list.
Ronald and Donald.
Cruz was and is 100% correct on this issue. Trump saying that NC should have not passed the bill IS a full fledged endorsement of perverts in the restrooms with our daughters. Saying it’s a state or local issue is just another spineless worthless comment from a characterless POS politician in Sen Paul like speak. Cruz being a putz doesn’t assign morality to the pos in the whitehouse. Trump is doing a fabulous job but he still has no morals and is a disgusting person. To think otherwise makes you no better than the blind worshippers of zero.
Another slap-down to the alphabet perverts. Root them out and expose them for what they are.
FINALLY..oh good heavens the horror..women will be able to go to women’s bathrooms and see actual WOMEN..not men wearing dresses
You are welcome!
You are speaking to the choir mi amigo. I was hoping that Trump was concealing just how conservative he was during the primaries, and I believe the never Trump crowd is quite surprised about how conservative he has been. Absolutely fantastic.
I believe the never Trump crowd is quite surprised about how conservative he has been.
HA! HA! to all the damn liberals!!!
“Time to light up the White House in RED, WHITE, & BLUE!”
YES!!
“Jenner tried to trap Trump at Trump Tower. Trump simply ignored the whacko.”
Actually Trump said no problem if Jenner used the women’s room.
“The Trump administration decided last week not to mount a legal challenge against a nationwide injunction that has blocked schools from letting transgender students use bathrooms that do not correspond with their biological sex.”
What?
Do you mean time to eliminate the Dept. of Education?
I’m asking about that part where you say ... the NEA.
NEA stands for National Education Association which is the Teachers Union.
I don’t see how a labor union can be “eliminated”.
Lookup the many ties that the NEA has with Soros and you’ll understand where I’m going with this... He is using the educational system and it’s support system to turn it into an mechanism to indoctrinate our own children and turn them against us. Look at who’s leading our children into the streets to protest against Trump - the professors and teachers that are union members.
Bookmarking the rules of logic
Irrelevant in any case. The game has changed. Weaponized corporate power brokers have become the new proxy fighters against states' rights.
"...The CEOs of more than 200 corporations. The NCAA and the NBA. Musicians who have condemned the law or cancelled shows over it, including Jimmy Buffett, Bruce Springsteen and Ringo Starr. Now investors are adding their names to the list of those taking aim at House Bill 2. In a letter to be released Monday, 53 investors ranging from those managing public pension funds to asset managers to foundations, representing $2.1 trillion in total assets under management, said they want the controversial law overturned. Among others, the letter was signed by Morgan Stanley Investment Management, John Hancock, RBC Wealth Management, Trillium Asset Management and the New York City Comptroller's office, which oversees municipal employees' pension funds..."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-leadership/wp/2016/09/26/add-big-investors-to-the-list-of-those-taking-aim-at-north-carolinas-bathroom-bill-2/?utm_term=.7dd9d45dad86
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