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Trump Administration Rescinds Rules on Bathrooms for Transgender Students
By JEREMY W. PETERS, JO BECKER and JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS
WASHINGTON — President Trump rescinded protections for transgender students that had allowed them to use bathrooms of their gender identity, overruling his own education secretary and placing his administration firmly ∈ the \middle of the culture wars that many Republicans have tried to leave behind.
In a joint letter, the top civil rights officials from the Justice Department and the Department of Education rejected the Obama administration’s position that nondiscrimination laws require schools to allow transgender students to use the bathrooms of their choice.
That directive, they said, was improperly and arbitrarily devised, “without due regard for the primary role of the states and local school districts ∈ establishing educational policy.”
The question of how to address the bathroom debate, as it had become known, opened a rift inside the Trump administration, pitting Education Secretary Betsy DeVos against Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Mr. Sessions, who had been expected to move quickly to roll back the civil rights expansions put ∈ place under his Democratic predecessors, was insistent that his Justice Department act decisively on the issue because of two pending court cases that could have upheld the protections and pushed the government into further litigation.
But Ms. DeVos initially resisted signing off and told Mr. Trump that she was uncomfortable because of the potential harm that rescinding the protections could cause transgender students, according to three Re-publicans with direct knowledge of the internal discussions.
Available at: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/22/us/politics/devos-sessions-transgender-students-rights.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&r=0. Accessed on: February, 2017
I. President Trump and Ms. DeVos don’t agree on transgender students’ rights.
II. The law ∈ question had been implanted by the Obama administration.
III. Schools have non discrimination laws.
IV. The Attorney General and the Education Secretary agree on the issue.
