Feds reject school district's plan for transgender student, locker room

[stephaniec]

Feds reject school district's plan for transgender student, locker room

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-transgender-student-locker-room-palatine-met-20151012-story.html

Chicago Tribune/Duaa Eldeib  10/12/2015

"A suburban transgender student's fight for full locker room access will continue after federal officials deemed inadequate a solution proposed by the state's largest high school district, school officials said Monday.

The transgender student filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights about a year and a half ago, seeking unrestricted access to a locker of the gender the student identifies with in Palatine-based Township High School District 211."

[suzifrommd]

For those who think it doesn't matter who's in the White House and who pooh-pooh presidential candidates statements in favor of transgender equality, ask yourself this: Would the US Dept. of Ed. have stood up for this student if some of the transphobes currently running were its boss?

[traci_k]

I think this shows how DO Ed is going to go for the next year. After the election will we see a reversal if one of the Transphobes wins? Could we please have a fiscal conservative snd not necessarily even a social liberal, just someone who will stand up for the rights of all people regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity and everything else?

[SilverWing]

Oh, come on! Now the Feds are in it, too? As if the school boards wer'nt bad enough....

I reeeeally hope whoever gets in the White House next isn't a transphobe... This is why we need to vote.