Transgender Restrooms

“Chief U.S. District Judge David C. Nye issued a ruling last week allowing Idaho’s law to take effect, rejecting a request from the Sexuality and Gender Alliance and trans-identified students for an injunction against it.” - CPost

“As children, they didn’t think to challenge the new adult rules, the new adult ideas of justice. Instead, they found a way around this difficulty that the grown-ups had introduced into their lives. It was a quiet plea to be left alone.” - Mark Ward

“Three years on, it appears that people are still extremely worried about the prospect of biological men entering the women’s restroom, and vice versa.” - Christian Headlines

“The Supreme Court decided not to hear a case involving a challenge to a Pennsylvania School’s District’s policy of allowing students to use the restroom which matches their gender identity rather than their biological sex.

“The four school systems currently have approved rules in their schools that prohibit discrimination based on gender identity. The policies don’t expressly guarantee student access to their choice of restroom, but the schools try to meet those requests.” - Christian Headlines

“Following in the footsteps of North Carolina, a conservative Texas lawmaker has introduced a controversial bill that would prevent local governments enacting transgender bathroom ordinances that force businesses to allow biological men into women’s bathrooms and showers.”

Multiple churches in the state of Massachusetts filed for a preliminary injunction due to their religious objection to recent non-discrimination policies. At issue are Massachusetts Laws 92A and 98 that prohibit distinction, discrimination or restriction based on gender identity. Jurist

“[T]he lawsuit argues that the guidance from the White House would turn schools “into laboratories for a massive social experiment.” NPR

Target Adds Private Bathrooms to Quell Transgender Debate

Walker Wildmon, a spokesman for AFA, said Wednesday the organization is unsatisfied with Target’s response, calling the policy “basically a bathroom free-for-all.”

“Ten more states have signed on to sue the Obama administration over its transgender directive that forces schools to allow students to use restrooms and locker rooms that correspond to their perceived gender identity rather than their biological sex.” BPNews