How a Push to Advance Bathroom Rights for Transgender Americans Reached the White Househttp://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/22/us/transgender-bathroom-obama-schools.html?_r=0The New York Times/By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG, JULIE BOSMAN, MANNY FERNANDEZ and JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVISMAY 21, 2016
"The people of Palatine, Ill., a middle-class suburb of Chicago marked by generic strip malls and tidy cul-de-sacs, had not spent much time debating the thorny questions of transgender rights. But in late 2013, a transgender high school athlete, so intent on defending her privacy that she is known only as Student A, took on her school district so she could use the girls' locker room."