Trump administration to rewrite Obama's transgender rule making it a states rights issue

[SirLinksALot]

SOURCE: WASHINGTON EXAMINER

URL: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trump-administration-to-rewrite-obamas-transgender-rule/article/2615387

By GABBY MORRONGIELLO


Justice Department officials plan to issue new guidance on protections for transgender students that will effectively reverse Obama-era recommendations and ensure those issues are decided at the state level going forward.

"That's an issue that the Department of Justice the Department of Education are addressing, and I think there will be further guidance coming from [Justice Department] in particular, with respect to not just the executive order but the case that's in front of the Supreme Court," White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Tuesday.

The Supreme Court is slated to hear oral arguments late next month on a case involving a transgender teen from Virginia who sued the local school board for the right to use the men's bathroom on campus despite being born a female. The debate over transgender "bathroom bills" gained increasing attention late last year after the Obama administration sent guidance to public schools saying they should allow transgender students to use whichever bathroom matches their gender identity.

"The president has maintained for a long time that this is a state's right issue and not one for the federal government," Spicer said when asked for Trump's position on the hot-button issue. "So while there will be further guidance coming out this, I think that all you need to do is look at what the president's view has been for a long time."

The Trump administration decided last week not to mount a legal challenge against a nationwide injunction that has blocked schools from letting transgender students use bathrooms that do not correspond with their biological sex.

During the campaign, Trump himself called the controversial North Carolina bathroom bill "very strong" and suggested he would allow transgender individuals to use either restroom while visiting his skyscraper on Fifth Avenue.

[geronl]

SO Trump won't really cancel it, he's passing the buck

[SirLinksALot]

SO Trump won't really cancel it, he's passing the buck

I think he did the right thing --- it is a states rights issue, one that the Federal government has no business imposing on states.

[Suppressed]

I think he did the right thing --- it is a states rights issue, one that the Federal government has no business imposing on states.

Sounds like the right approach!

[geronl]

I think he did the right thing --- it is a states rights issue, one that the Federal government has no business imposing on states.

So then cancel it, you don't need a federal rule to make it a states right issue.

[Frank Cannon]

SO Trump won't really cancel it, he's passing the buck

Isn't this what you so called "Constitutionalists" call for? Putting the states in charge of their own rules? Now that Donny is doing this ultra Conservative thing, he is passing the buck.

Way to stay consistent.......consistently irrelevant.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

SO Trump won't really cancel it, he's passing the buck

Trump's in the right here 100%.

[XenaLee]

Trump's in the right here 100%.

Yes.   It should be a states' rights issue.    That way, liberal states like California can have their cesspools, and states like Texas can have their common sense policies.  Until enough Californians move there and create another cesspool, that is.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

If this is a rule, then he can cancel it.

If not, then he can get a law passed by Congress.

I see no reason to 'rewrite'.