LGBT News Federal Appeals Court Upholds Obama Administration Transgender Protections

BradThePug · Apr 19, 2016

WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the Department of Education’s interpretation of existing federal civil rights laws to protect transgender people against discrimination in education.
The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 decision, upheld the department’s interpretation of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 to include protections in the law’s ban on sex discrimination that allow transgender people to use a restroom in accordance with their gender identity.
The appeals court first held that the language of regulations implementing Title IX were ambiguous as to transgender restroom use and then finding that the department’s interpretation of those regulations — allowing transgender students to use the restroom that corresponds with their gender identity — was a legitimate interpretation.
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JB2015 · Apr 19, 2016

AP: 4th CIRCUIT COURT OVERTURNS VIRGINIA SCHOOL'S TRANSGENDER BATHROOM RULE

4th CIRCUIT COURT OVERTURNS VIRGINIA SCHOOL'S TRANSGENDER BATHROOM RULE

original story from October 2015:
Feds back transgender teenager in school restroom dispute

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Happy to see some progress for the transgender community, but we all still have such a long way to go.

Doesn't look like the ruling was 'stayed' yet but I am afraid an appeal is almost certain if you look at polling and the fact that this occoured in a red state

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