School Systems Across US Refuse to Comply With Anti-Trans Executive Order

[Lori Dee]

School Systems Across US Refuse to Comply With Anti-Trans Executive Order
Multiple school systems released advisories stating that Trump's order mandating discrimination will not be followed.
Link to Full Article
Truthout - Erin Reed, Erin in the Morning
published February 1, 2025

On Thursday, multiple school systems and representatives issued statements rejecting Trump's executive order that directs schools to discriminate against transgender students or face legal consequences. The order, released Wednesday, labels transgender identity as an "anti-American ideology" and mandates discrimination in bathrooms and locker rooms while threatening teachers with criminal charges for supporting trans students' social transitions. In response, school officials across the country are making it clear: they will not comply, and they remain committed to protecting the rights of their transgender students.

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As Trump's executive orders take effect, the greatest immediate threat isn't their legality — it's premature compliance before they can be challenged in court. Most of these orders function more as legal intimidation tactics than enforceable law, relying on the chilling effect of DOJ threats to pressure hospitals, teachers, and institutions into abandoning transgender people before the legal process even begins. But resistance is already mounting. These school districts, and others, recognize the stakes and are refusing to fold, standing firm in their commitment to protect transgender students — students who lack the institutional power to fight back on their own against an administration determined to erase them.

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The article lists specific responses from several school districts. Read the full article here:
https://truthout.org/articles/school-systems-across-us-refuse-to-comply-with-anti-trans-executive-order/

[Brynn]

Thank you for posting this article Lori Dee. I feel so bad for the millions of people who will be affected by the policies of the new administration.

Appeasing authoritarian figures rarely works, something UK PM Chamberlain found out in 1938 with Hitler. Hannah Arendt's seminal "Origins of Totalitarianism" contains many passages about past actions that are applicable to today's realities. We all need to rally around the public and private leaders rejecting the ideologues in the new administration as together we are stronger!

Thanks again for posting this Lori Dee and I hope you are enjoying the balmy evening before the frosty weather.

Bronwynn

[KathyLauren]

Glad to hear it.  The key to dealing with a dictator is non-compliance.  It is risky, of course, and that's what dictators count on - risk-aversion - but it is the only way to get through to him that he is not as important as he thinks he is.