Via the Washington Post:
The Trump administration on Wednesday revoked federal guidelines specifying that transgender students have the right to use public school restrooms that match their gender identity, taking a stand on a contentious issue that has become the central battle over LGBT rights.
Officials with the federal Education and Justice departments notified the U.S. Supreme Court late Wednesday that the administration is ordering the nation’s schools to disregard memos the Obama administration issued during the past two years regarding transgender student rights. Those memos said that prohibiting transgender students from using facilities that align with their gender identity violates federal anti-discrimination laws.
The two-page “Dear colleague” letter from the Trump administration, which is set to go to the nation’s public schools, does not offer any new guidance, instead saying that the earlier directive needed to be withdrawn because it lacked extensive legal analysis, did not go through a public vetting process, sowed confusion and drew legal challenges.
The administration said that it would not rely on the prior interpretation of the law in the future.
This is what happens when you let creepy people who are obsessed with the personal habits of absolute strangers take over the government.
What we really need are protections against those people.
The only protections against those people, the haters, WERE voting. But, it seems that is gone. Even if we vote, “they” know how to steal. Our democracy, I think,is on the way of the dinosaur.
Hello everyone –
Creepy certainly a correct word for these folks. And yes, the threat to our democracy is very real. Look at the wave of anti-protest legislation that’s been proposed in many states. And now THIS from AZ:
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/02/23/new-law-would-let-arizona-treat-organized-dissent-organized-crime
We’re in deep doo-doo for sure.