Dear Colleague Letter: Transgender Students May 13, 2016
U.S. Department of Education
Civil Rights Division Office for Civil Rights
www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/letters/colleague-201605-title-ix-transgender.pdf
As a condition of receiving Federal funds, a school agrees that it will not exclude, separate, deny benefits to, or otherwise treat differently on the basis of sex any person in its educational programs or activities unless expressly authorized to do so under Title IX or its implementing regulations. The Departments treat a student's gender identity as the student's sex for purposes of Title IX and its implementing regulations. This means that a school must not treat a transgender student differently from the way it treats other students of the same gender identity. The Departments' interpretation is consistent with courts' and other agencies' interpretations of Federal laws prohibiting sex discrimination.
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I'm posting a link here to the actual text of the U.S. Department of Education's letter to every single school system in the country setting forth guidelines for how transgender students are to be treated.
I recommend reading it, especially if you're a student. It's pretty easy reading for a government document and I found it very affirming. It felt amazing to read the words my government wrote.
