Sentences with phrase «transgender use of bathrooms»

Utah students do well at the National Chinese Math & Science Competition held in Florida.As you read here yesterday, the Trump Administration has rescinded Obama Administration guidance on transgender use of bathrooms.

Not exact matches

The federal guidance said public schools must allow transgender students to use bathrooms, locker rooms and other intimate facilities that correspond with their gender identity or face the loss of federal funds.

(Reuters)- A U.S. judge blocked Obama administration guidance that transgender public school students must be allowed to use bathrooms of their choice, granting a nationwide injunction sought by a group of 13 states led by Texas.

«These policies just keep kids separate and they put unnecessary stress on parents,» she said, adding that allowing transgender students to use the bathroom of their choice is the best solutions for all.

A main point of contention in the race was the state's stance on the «bathroom bill» which denies transgender people the right to use the bathroom of their choice.

In the face of a nationwide business backlash, the Tar Heel State this year repealed its so - called bathroom bill, which restricted transgender people's use of public facilities.

From easing the sale of water utilities to private companies to telling transgender students which bathroom to use, many high - profile — and controversial — legislative proposals have little chance of passage after the Assembly last week completed what leaders say was the final major floor session day.

As expected, most evangelicals take a strong stance against making businesses provide wedding services to same - sex couples or allowing transgender people to use the bathroom of their choice.

While most people are firmly in one camp or the other, roughly 3 to 4 out of 10 Americans either sympathized with both sides — or with neither — on issues of whether employers should be required to provide birth control (43 %), transgender people should be able to use the bathroom of their choice (37 %), or businesses should be required to serve same - sex couples (33 %).

Eleven years later, with same - sex marriage now the law of the land thanks to the Supreme Court, transgender bathroom use mandatory in schools thanks to the Obama administration, and the drafting of women a serious (and Republican - supported) proposition for Congress, it's hard not to view Schlafly's anti-ERA victory as somewhat Pyrrhic.

I believe that transgender people should be able to use the bathroom of their choice.

New York state will file an amicus brief in support of overturning a North Carolina law that critics say violates the civil rights of LGBT people by prohibiting municipalities from issuing ordinances that allow transgender people to use the bathroom of the gender they identify with.

The pushback against the Trump Administration continued Sunday in a protest against new policy regarding transgender youths and the use of school bathrooms.

Trump will keep the gender - neutral bathroom established at the White House by Obama after rescinding an Obama administration policy regarding the use of bathrooms of choice by transgender students.

This week President Donald Trump revoked guidance the Obama Administration issued to public schools, telling them to allow transgender students to use the bathrooms of their choosing.

Those are the experiences of transgender adults who were aware of the health effects of not using the bathroom.

Although supporters of the controversial bills that seek to prevent transgender students from using the bathroom that corresponds to their gender identity often point to public safety as the main concern, opponents maintain there's no correlation between anti-discrimination bills and a rise in crime.

In February, the Departments of Justice and Education jointly announced they were rescinding the Obama - era guidance protecting transgender students» right to use a bathroom corresponding with their gender identity.

Meanwhile, the emergence of highly politicized issues like allowing transgender students to use bathrooms aligned with their identity has raised the LGBTQ profile nationally, but made constructive dialogue harder.

While North Carolina is the only state to have enacted such legislation thus far, the issue of bathroom use by transgender students occupied considerable time in many state houses.

DALLAS — Texas» lieutenant governor said Friday that the state is prepared to forfeit billions of federal dollars in public school funding in defiance of an Obama administration directive requiring schools to allow transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with their chosen gender identity.

AP wonders what will become of the quiet agreements schools have worked out with the parents of transgendered students over restroom use if the new Texas bathroom bill passes.

These documents addressed issues ranging from which bathrooms transgender students should use, to how to handle accusations of sexual assault on campus, to whether or not districts are violating black students» rights when suspending them in higher numbers.

Other education - related items include: giving school administrators flexibility in teacher hiring and retention; restrictions on school bathroom use for transgender students; and prohibiting the use of taxpayer dollars to collect union dues, which would impact teachers.

She said she is particularly concerned that newer developments — such as rules protecting the right of transgender students to use the bathroom, gym, or athletic team of their gender — would be neglected or rescinded under a Trump administration.

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The survey also indicated that 42.2 % of transgender students had been prevented from using their preferred name, 59.2 % had been required to use a bathroom or locker room of their legal sex, and 31.6 % had been prevented from wearing clothes considered inappropriate based on their legal sex.

Posted on May 13, 2016 · Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick is telling Texas school superintendents to defy the Obama Administration's directive requiring that transgender students be allowed to use the bathroom of the gender with which they identify.

The U.S. Department of Education released guidelines Friday to help schools understand how federal law protects the treatment of transgender students on matters such as bathroom use.

Federal and state legislators clashed over the bathroom issue in the summer of 2016 when a Texas judge blocked Obama administration guidelines that transgender students be allowed to use the school bathroom of the gender they identified as, regardless of their biology at birth.

In 2017 alone, more than 100 anti-LGBTI bills have been introduced in 29 states, including a law that prevents transgender people from using the bathroom of the gender with which they identify.

March 14, 2017 The American Family Therapy Academy (AFTA) stands in opposition to the recent executive order rescinding the protection of transgender students using bathrooms and locker rooms that correspond with their affirmed gender identity.

North Carolina's so - called «bathroom law,» which requires individuals to use restrooms corresponding to the sex they were assigned at birth rather than their gender identity, has prompted questions over what responsibilities businesses and employers have to accommodate the preferences of transgender people.