Utah School Board Members Push to Reject Federal Money to Avoid Transgender Guidelines

Instead of following transgender student guidelines pushed by the Obama administration, some Utah district school board members have plans to create a budget that would be free from federal funding, according to reports. Brian Halladay, Wendy Hart, and Paula Hill, school board members in the Alpine School District, penned an open letter to Utah state leaders, stating their opposition to President Barack Obama’s transgender student guidelines, The Salt Lake Tribune reported. “The consequences of this social experiment would be disastrous. Not only as an invasion of the rights of a majority, but also with the potential legal liability this could incur upon school districts and the state, if we were to adopt this egregious guidance,” the three school board members in Utah County wrote, according to The Salt Lake Tribune. Read more....