Lift the protections for trans kids and make sure the mentally ill’s ability to buy firearms aren’t hampered or restricted in any way.
Sounds like everything’s right on track.
I was very surprised, however, that the rabidly evangelical DeVos had reservations/objections about this. I can honestly say I didn’t see that coming.
More evidence for all the Nader/Stein/Johnson folks out there on the progressive tip as well as the “centrists” that there is no difference between the parties. I mean, one party protects teenagers struggling with their gender and sex identity and the other removes all the protections.
See – identical!
It will now be up to states and school districts to interpret federal anti-discrimination law and determine whether students should have access to restrooms in accordance with their expressed gender identity and not just their biological sex.
This action by the administration of the person who’s currently in the Oval Office is two-fold: First, it accomplishes the goal of letting the Rabid Religionists to call the shots on a hot-button issue near and dear to their “hearts.” Secondly, it sets the stage for further weakening of all federal civil rights actions (such as interpretations of Title IX) by allowing the states to test the boundaries of “states’ rights.” It’s now Open Season on federal laws aimed at leveling the playing field and obtaining fair, equal and just treatment for minorities. More and more states will seek to “interpret” other federal rules and laws.
The Justice and Education departments said in a letter being sent to school districts nationwide that the Obama-era guidance caused a spike in lawsuits over how the guidance should be applied.
The Trump administration has resulted in a spike in lawsuits over how its policies should be applied. The Trump administration should be withdrawn immediately.
Here, in sad sack Texas, attacks on Civil Rights protections is just like hunting season - you know it’s coming every two years. In spite of pleas from businesses and others who are more sane, our current bathroom bill is making its way through the funny farm.
Agreed. Here’s to hoping she pleasantly surprises us more often. I am disappointed, though, she caved to Jeff Sessions and signed off on the change. Who knows? – Maybe SCOTUS will do the right thing and rule Title IX does, in fact, cover this area. I doubt it, but one can hope.
A reasonable conjecture would be that this touches something in her personal life, since time & again that’s what drives rightwingers in the direction of decency. It’s also possible that she’s an ideologue but not a ‘hurt someone defenseless today’ kind of Christian – who knows?
Well it certainly makes sense to me to remove a single guideline/directive in order to allow the 50 states and innumerable counties therein … as well as each embedded local municipality… decide which pee pees can use which bathrooms. For people that do not like “big” government, it seems that there will be an abundance of laws that cause more confusion and law suits. And, as always, what are the monitoring and enforcement guidelines? How will these disparate CHOICES be conducted?
Another Trump “Let’s undo something from the previous administration … not for the importance or quality of the action… but in order to add another tick mark to my ‘accomplishments’ list. See! I’m working real hard.”
Wouldn’t it be (sadly) ironic if Barron turned out to be transgender?
According to the NYT, she did not cave to Sessions. Trump told her to go along with reversing the policy. She could have refused, and run the risk of being fired.
Ah. Thanks for the info. You are right – if she resisted him on this, he’d have just fired her. It would have been just one more odd incident among the many, but he does not take ‘no’ for an answer, it appears.
States will now find solutions approved by White Republican Jesus.
States will spend tens of millions of dollars defending lawsuits, and quite probably lose. But it’s OK, because that money will come out of the pool that would otherwise have paid teachers.
Looking forward to the signs that greet every visitor to each state/municipality:
- Buckle up! It’s the law!
- Speed strictly enforced by radar
- Urinate in facilities appropriate to your chromosomes!
(strictly enforced by cameras and urinalysis)
Trump sure has had to deal with a lot of urine-related issues in his fledgling administration.
Trump is fighting for LGBT community:
I had hoped we were past this:
Mrs darr and I visited the area around Zion NP last summer and I made an image on my crude non smart phone of a park bathroom sign. I can’t seem to transfer it off the darn thing or I would share it.
Trump saying this is a state issue is passing discrimination off to the states which is wrong on its face. Can we not just let people take a leak in peace?
You know, I had always thought that the GOP was all in for individual freedom and less intrusion by government into our personal lives. But then this is a vaguely sexual/biological issue and as we know that area of concern gets the right all up in a frenzy and the idea of “freedom to do as you please” gets chucked under the nearest moving vehicle.
Hunting season… that’s a great analogy! But I thought hunting season was an annual event. But then your leg. does meet every 2 years.
This is what the Republicans mean by “limited government.”
They favor limiting redress for the powerless and victimized, and maximizing privilege and power for the already-advantaged.
Limiting the right to sue for medical malpractice is “tort reform.”
Overturning an Obama administration rule that requires a fiduciary standard for investment advisors.
Overturning an Obama administration rule that prohibits coal companies dumping debris into waterways.
Right-to-work laws that weaken the ability of workers to organize and collectively bargain.
Weakening protections for transgender students under the banner of protecting women and girls from sexual predators.
Somewhat good news: the New York state attorney general will continue to uphold these protections.
I see that this administration is big on states’ rights. I suppose that means they’ll leave decisions regarding marijuana use to the states, too, right?