Washington – NY Times: U.S. To Issue Decree On Transgender Access To School Restrooms

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    Washington – The Obama administration will issue a sweeping decree on Friday telling every U.S. public school district to allow transgender students to use the bathrooms that match their gender identity.

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    The letter, signed by officials from the Education and Justice departments, does not have the force of law but contains an implicit threat that schools which do not abide by the Obama administration’s interpretation of the law could face lawsuits or a loss of federal aid.

    “There is no room in our schools for discrimination of any kind, including discrimination against transgender students on the basis of their sex,” U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said in a statement.

    “This guidance gives administrators, teachers, and parents the tools they need to protect transgender students from peer harassment and to identify and address unjust school policies,” she said.

    The move comes as the Obama administration and North Carolina battle in federal court over a state law passed in March that limits public bathroom access for transgender people.

    By passing the law, North Carolina became the first state in the country to ban people from using multiple occupancy restrooms or changing rooms in public buildings and schools that do not match the sex on their birth certificate.

    “No student should ever have to go through the experience of feeling unwelcome at school or on a college campus,” Education Secretary John King Jr. said in a statement.

    “We must ensure that our young people know that whoever they are or wherever they come from, they have the opportunity to get a great education in an environment free from discrimination, harassment and violence,” he said.

    The Obama administration letter will say schools may not require transgender students to have a medical diagnosis, undergo any medical treatment, or produce a birth certificate or other document before treating them according to their gender identity.

    Americans are divided over how public restrooms should be used by transgender people, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll, with 44 percent saying people should use them according to their biological sex and 39 percent saying they should be used according to the gender with which they identify.


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    jack25
    jack25
    7 years ago

    What a great country we live in

    Curiosity
    Curiosity
    7 years ago

    Instead of addressing real issues like isis, porous borders, Iran, energy independence, our vulnerable power grid, Russian expansionism, and drug cartels taking over our southern neighbors, the leftists choose to focus on things that affect less than half of one percent of the people in this country. If that isn’t pure stupidity and incompetence, I don’t know what is.

    7 years ago

    Make men use the ladies room and woman the men’s room? I don’t think that the world was this bad in the times of the mabul. As we all know those days were bad.

    7 years ago

    sick US values, really sickos taking over….

    7 years ago

    Did you know that Obama is really a woman dressed as a man -well not really a man, but better not to be said here.

    Tsfat-Breslover-Kotzker
    Tsfat-Breslover-Kotzker
    7 years ago

    Thank you for the erev shabbos gift.
    This article makes me even more happy that i made aliyah.
    Yes i am charedi. But better to live with Israeli mishagas then US disgusting mortality.
    I never ever thought I’d say those words.
    After 5 years I’m sure.
    To all my chevah in NY run while you can.

    allmark
    allmark
    7 years ago

    A great deal of this can be laid at the feet of Shelly Silver. Had he prevented the NY legislature legalizing immoral marriages, it might well have stopped the movement in its tracks. It must also be laid at the feet of the many frum institutions that continued to honor him because funding was more important than morality.

    smartie
    smartie
    7 years ago

    Decrees, is this czarist Russia???