Our government has made a decision to filed a lawsuit against the state of North Carolina because the state says that transgender people can only use the restrooms (man or woman) with the sex that is on their birth certificate.
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Four days after the White House issued a directive to school districts nationwide affirming transgender students’ rights to use the bathroom that matches their gender identity, Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal and Attorney General Sam Olens have broken their silence.
“Transgender students do now attend CCSD schools; there are no students – transgender or not – who use a bathroom or locker room for the opposite gender from their physical gender”, Jacoby said.
Obama’s comments, along with the legal guidance issued jointly by the Education and Justice departments, have placed the administration in the midst of the latest dividing line in the country’s culture wars.
Courts have issued mixed rulings on whether transgender people are protected by federal civil rights law.
State superintendent Joy Hofmeister has called the rules a “gross over reach” by the federal government.
For years, Ray, a transgender advocate, says he avoided using a public bathroom. For that reason, I do not believe a student of another gender should use a restroom alongside students of the opposite sex.
The controversy over transgender bathrooms was the first topic in the Osceola County school district boardroom.
“It really can build up for kids you know and we’ve had young people our community attempt suicide and to think that this is just a conversation that we’re having it’s really much deeper than that“, says Vice President, Dakota Outright, Jennifer Weisgerber.
Messer introduced the PUBLIC School Act, which gives state and local governments the power to “enact and enforce policies regarding the use of sex-segregated bathrooms and sex-segregated locker rooms of educational institutions on the basis of gender identity”. Richards says, as well as issues of how to “maintain the confidentiality of a student who may, for example, be out with their transgender status at school but may not be out at home with their parents”.
“A school may, however, make individual-user options available to all students who voluntarily seek additional privacy”, according to the statement.
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In Duval County, a parent is filing a lawsuit against the school district over its bathroom policies.
