“It was just a bad situation”.
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As a sophomore, she pushed the district about what restrooms and locker rooms she should be allowed to use.
The Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference allows transgender students to play on teams that match their gender identities. “This is creating an environment to highlight and to promote difference”, he said.
Texas public schools receive about $10 billion in federal funds over a two-year budget. “And that correlates to when the administration let me use the bathroom that matched my gender identity”.
The guidance was issued days after the U.S. Justice Department and North Carolina sued each other over a state law requiring transgender people to use the public bathroom that corresponds to the sex on their birth certificates. Francisco Negron, the general counsel of the National School Boards Association, said the administration’s letter “continues to reflect the fact that the law is at odds around the country”, and clarity could only come from Congress or the courts.
Laura A. Jacobs, a psychotherapist who works with transgender people as young as 12 in Bergen and Hudson counties, said the directive was “a powerful statement coming from the highest government official in the land”.
“This is absolutely not about a student on a day-to-day basis saying, ‘Today I’m a boy, tomorrow I’m a girl.’ That has never happened”, Vannasdall said. “It could be more harmful because kids probably won’t use that bathroom because they’ll be singled out or bullied by other students”.
More than a decade ago, the Los Angeles Unified School District drafted a policy stating that transgender students should be allowed to use bathrooms matching their gender identity.
The state passed a law in 2011 that prohibits discrimination on the basis of gender identity.
Foran said the district worked with the Justice Department to craft the policy to ensure one of their students had equal access.
As of Friday afternoon, he said, the district had not received any comments from parents or community members about the letter.
Dusty Rader, 25, is a CT high school English teacher who began transitioning from female to male while in high school.
Patrick said, “This goes against the values of so many people”.
Jay Remy, a spokesperson for the district, said, “We have been accommodating transgender students for years and ensuring their rights to access public education equally”.
“We feel extremely excited about the President’s stance on this issue, said Eldridge Greer, the director of Denver Public School’s Office of Social Emotional Learning”. Mississippi Republican Gov. Phil Bryant said Obama’s administration was “forcing its liberal agenda” on states that reject it.
Forcing these demands on schools includes the possibility that people will use the policy as a cover to enter these private spaces to prey on children. “Do not enact this policy”, Patrick said.
When asked how she learned about her daughter’s transgender status, Mrs. Axe said she knew that Shannon was troubled by something at a very young age. “The federal government has no business inserting itself into every local school in an effort to trample the safety and privacy of children in restrooms and locker rooms”.
For Chirlane McCray, the wife of Mayor Bill de Blasio of NY and co-chairwoman of a city commission on gender equality, said it was a case of basic human rights. “The Obama administration is trying to once again rewrite the law to suit its agenda”.
Suzanne Eckes, a professor in the Indiana University School of Education and an expert on school law, said the issue in those pieces of legislation has been a question for schools in the past few years as principals try to comply with Title IX rules.
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On Friday, Horry County School Board Chairman Joe DeFeo said the Obama directive is essentially moot because the issue is already before the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals.
