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 states recent law governing bathroom use in public buildings. It wont be a new federal law, but will instead reflect the Obama administrations 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 administrations 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 students 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.
Obamas 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 citys now transgender bathroom ordinance to enter a womens 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.
Last gasp from this American hating..., I’ll stop there.
Dig the boots in.
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.
What's Congress going to do about it?
Lawless Obama isnt 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 Obamas 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.
Will be glad when a military deposes this despot.
The 0bamanation would never subject Sharia or Bacteria to this; maybe the Wookster though..
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.
“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.
Of course it is. They've done nothing and it's emboldened Obama to this point.
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.
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!
Obama is Law-less because Republican “leaders” and Americans are BALL-LESS!!
Pepper spray. Let the Title 9’s fight over who the ‘real’ victim is.
Good grief I’m so tired of this crap.
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?
PERVERTS ARE NOT A GENDER.
THRY ARE PERVERTS.
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.
“Obama is Law-less because Republican leaders and Americans are BALL-LESS!”...........
Says it all!!
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.
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