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By Sandhya Somashekhar and Moriah Balingit February 11 at 3:19 PM
The Trump administration signaled Friday that it was changing course on the previous administrations efforts to expand transgender rights, submitting a legal brief withdrawing the governments objections to an injunction that had blocked guidance requiring that transgender students be allowed to use restrooms that match their gender identity.
The move by the Justice Department does not immediately change the situation for the nations public schools, as a federal judge had already put a temporary hold on the guidance as a lawsuit by a dozen states moved through the courts ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/trump-administration-signals-change-in-policy-for-transgender-students/2017/02/11/c2fd138e-f051-11e6-b4ff-ac2cf509efe5_story.html
uppityperson
(115,677 posts)I don't understand why the fuck denying civil rights is in any way acceptable to anyone
Skittles
(153,160 posts)the only thing I had given Donald Fucking Trump credit for was his response when he was asked which restroom Caitlyn Jenner should use in Trump Tower - "Whichever bathroom she wants to use"
50 Shades Of Blue
(9,998 posts)scscholar
(2,902 posts)I don't accept this.