Posted on 02/12/2017 2:40:02 AM PST by reaganaut1
The Trump administration has dropped the federal government’s challenge to a nationwide injunction issued last year that blocked the fulfillment of Obama administration guidelines stating that transgender students’ access to bathrooms and other gender-segregated school facilities was protected under existing federal civil rights law.
The injunction was issued in August by Judge Reed O’Connor of the Federal District Court for the Northern District of Texas as part of a lawsuit filed by more than a dozen states over the Obama administration’s position that Title IX, the federal law that bans sex discrimination in schools, protects transgender students.
Under that interpretation, transgender students have access to facilities like bathrooms and locker rooms that correspond with their gender identity, a proposition to which social conservatives strongly object. They argue that allowing transgender students to use those facilities poses a threat to the privacy and safety of other students.
The Obama administration appealed the injunction and requested that it apply only to states involved in the lawsuit and not nationwide. Oral arguments in that case were scheduled to begin on Tuesday, but on Friday, the Justice Department withdrew the previous administration’s challenge.
“The parties are currently considering how best to proceed in this appeal,” the department said in a legal brief to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
The decision changed little in the short term because the nationwide injunction has been in effect since August, but it signaled a significant change in the government’s approach to transgender issues under President Trump. Mara Keisling, the executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality, called the move a “callous attack” on “the dignity and safety of transgender students.”
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“Many women on our floor began going to lower floors to the restroom. Everyone in our department of 70 was offered counseling except the one person who needed it.”
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The same happened at the studio I work for. Freepers think that MOST employees at studios are libtards but there’s a respectable number I know of who went to even another building just to do their thing and dont want to be involved in this nonsense.
Definitely. Total predatory BS.
“A little common sense, thank goodness. Title IX was never meant to be a Federal mandate that boys be allowed to use girls’ bathrooms.”
Let’s get rid of Title X, and federal funding of education altogether (see Article I Section 8). Problem solved.
“Under that interpretation, transgender students have access to facilities like bathrooms and locker rooms that correspond with their gender identity, a proposition to which social conservatives strongly object.”
Why do you have to be a social conservative to not want men in women’s bathrooms and locker rooms? It’s just normal common sense.
Of course it is.
I agree. Gorsuch will be another looney leftist on the court. Homosexual rights will be above Christian rights. Why did Trump really choose him?
Re-read it the day before the day after tomorrow and it will become clear to you.
The Trump administration has dropped the federal government’s challenge to a nationwide injunction issued last year that blocked the fulfillment of Obama administration guidelines stating that transgender students’ access to bathrooms and other gender-segregated school facilities was protected under existing federal civil rights law.
Either that or a simple statement explaining the result.
Many women on our floor began going to lower floors to the restroom. Everyone in our department of 70 was offered counseling except the one person who needed it.
IMO this individual was homosexual and the transgender was just an extension of that behavior. Nice guy and a pretty talented developer, but he was not a woman.
I would have still used that bathroom and carried a pair of garden shears. My 1st question to him in the bathroom is "do you still have male equipment?" If so I will help you out so that you can continue to use this bathroom.
Otherwise you are a Male, change bathrooms!
My thinking too. Very confusingly written.
Thank the Lord. Some sanity at last.
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