LCS, FSU keep transgender protections after Trump administration reversal

The Trump administration has just withdrawn Obama-era guidelines on how schools should accommodate transgender students, the Associated Press has tweeted.

One effect could be on Gavin Grimm, a Virginia student whose federal civil rights lawsuit against his school board will go before the Supreme Court.

The letter also says that the withdrawal of the guidance documents “does not leave students without protections from discrimination, bullying, or harassment”.

On Wednesday, the Justice and Education departments reversed the Obama administration’s guidance, which extended Title IX protections to transgender students’ use restrooms and locker rooms.

“We are making no changes to our guidelines”, said Bob Mosier, a spokesman for Anne Arundel County Public Schools.

Cuomo said NY state would fight for protections for the LGBTQ community. “Five courts of appeals have already found that sex discontinuation is inclusive of transgender people”. They argue that the authors of civil rights laws, which go back to the 1960s and ’70s, never meant to include trans people in sex discrimination bans, so trans people shouldn’t be protected under the statutes. The aforementioned DOJ letter, instructing public schools to disregard previous letters from the Obama administration, will be circulated at public schools nationwide. Now, Leon County Schools and Florida State University are reassuring transgender students they will still support them. We are not changing course, even though the reversal by the Trump Administration no longer requires it. “Our company has immigrants in it that are key to the innovation of our company”, Cook said.

He said it’s important to treat trans kids like every other student.

The Trump administration is correct to reassure local school districts that the federal government will not punish them if they have boys use the boys’ room and girls use the girls’ room.