By Dan Calabrese ——Bio and Archives--February 14, 2018
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The U.S. Department of Education will no longer investigate civil rights complaints from transgender students prohibited from using the bathroom corresponding to their gender identity, a spokesperson at the department confirmed to NBC News on Tuesday. The development constitutes a reversal of the Obama-era guidance on the issue and is another blow to the transgender community from the Trump administration. In May 2016, former President Barack Obama instructed public schools that they must allow transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms that align with their gender identity. The guidance was issued as an interpretation of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which prohibits sex discrimination in education.
In February 2017, however, President Donald Trump's administration formally rescinded that guidance, sending a letter to the Supreme Court and the nation's public schools stating that the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division will no longer "rely on the views expressed in that guidance, and instead will consider further and more completely the legal issues involved." On Tuesday, Education Department spokesperson Elizabeth Hill clarified the department's position in an email sent to NBC News. "Title IX prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, not gender identity," Hill said. "In the case of bathrooms," she added ,"longstanding regulations provide that separating facilities on the basis of sex is not a form of discrimination prohibited by Title IX."That's because there's no such thing as "gender identity." Your gender is what it is regardless of what you think, assert or feel. The party that claims to respect science has little use for it when it comes to the little matter of X and Y chromosomes, but the rest of us recognize that if you've got a wee-wee and you think you're a girl, you have a psychological disorder that suggests you need to get some help. What the Obama Administration tried to do with this "guidance" was jump on a cultural fad and use it as a pretext to shove a radical agenda down the throats of federal fund recipients all across the country, completely ignoring every concern that might crop up about people's safety and the near impossibility of enforcing such a vague standard of who is or isn't male or female.
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