Trump dumps transgender rule

Posted 3/3/17

The liberals don’t like it and the conservatives do — President Donald Trump has dumped the public schools bathroom rules for transgender students, calling the rule a legal overreach by the Obama …

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Trump dumps transgender rule

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The liberals don’t like it and the conservatives do — President Donald Trump has dumped the public schools bathroom rules for transgender students, calling the rule a legal overreach by the Obama administration.The Trump administration believes the issue should be left to the states to decide. We agree.There won’t be any immediate impact on schools, because the Obama guidance had been blocked since August by a federal judge in Texas, one of 13 states that sued over the directive.The court cases will continue. A transgender teen’s case is to be heard by the Supreme Court next month. The teen is from Virginia, where he attends high school. The case is over the school’s bathroom access policy.Anti-bullying safeguards for students will not be affected by the change.Advocates for protections for transgender teens said the overall rollback sends a message that something is wrong with them, which is harmful, said Nancy Haque, co-executive of Basic Rights Oregon.There are other executive orders by Obama that need to be dumped, including the one on overtime pay, which really was a reach too far and is harmful to small businesses.


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