http://commondreams.org/news/2016/05...afe-you-belong
The Obama administration will tell U.S. public schools on Friday that transgender students must have access to bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with their gender identity.
The joint guidance (pdf) from the Departments of Education (DOE) and Justice (DOJ) "sends a clear message to transgender students across the country," said Vanita Gupta, head of the DOJ's Civil Rights Division: "Here in America, you are safe, you are protected, and you belong—just as you are."
The document does not lay out any new policy or propose any new law, but "makes clear that both federal agencies treat a student's gender identity as the student's sex for purposes of enforcing Title IX," according to a DOJ statement.
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Say GOODBYE to having to use the wrong bathrooms or the "nurse's office", kids! Yay!!!!!
I am very much looking forward to passing this along to my adolescent clients' school districts.
It is clear to me that Obama is seeing the potential discriminatory writing on the wall for trans people and he is doing all he can before leaving office to protect us. Damn I wish he could stay in office forever!