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Title: Oregon schools risk lawsuits over transgender kids and bathrooms, lawyers warn
Post by: stephaniec on January 21, 2016, 01:42:46 AM
Oregon schools risk lawsuits over transgender kids and bathrooms, lawyers warn

http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2016/01/laws_on_transgender_students_i.html

Oregon Live/By  Casey Parks | The Oregonian/OregonLive   on January 20, 2016 at 4:10 PM

"In the months since Dallas School District leaders agreed to allow a transgender student to use the boys bathroom, parents in the rural Oregon community have prayed and protested.

Tuesday night, in front of a crowd of 250, the school board invited lawyers to explain publicly. What would happen, board members asked, if they barred transgender students from using the bathrooms they want to use? "
Title: Re: Oregon schools risk lawsuits over transgender kids and bathrooms, lawyers warn
Post by: SilverWing on January 21, 2016, 11:57:42 AM
I have to say, this is just about one of the clearest explanations about how transgender law works in schools. (Please ignore the awkward way of putting it.)