Trans News/ Issues

*Anya* · 08-22-2016, 08:42 AM

August 22, 2016 The Associated Press

Texas (AP) — A federal judge in Texas has temporarily blocked an Obama administration directive on bathroom rights for transgender students in U.S. public schools.

U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor in Fort Worth issued the preliminary injunction Sunday.

Texas and 12 other states asked O'Connor to halt the directive after the federal government told U.S. public schools in May that transgender students must be allowed to use bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with their chosen gender identity.

That announcement came days after the Justice Department sued North Carolina over a state law that requires people to use public bathrooms that correspond with the gender on their birth certificates. U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch had likened that law to policies of racial segregation.

Republicans have argued such laws are commonsense privacy safeguards.

Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

DapperButch · 08-22-2016, 04:59 PM

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Originally Posted by *Anya*

August 22, 2016 The Associated Press

Texas (AP) — A federal judge in Texas has temporarily blocked an Obama administration directive on bathroom rights for transgender students in U.S. public schools.

U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor in Fort Worth issued the preliminary injunction Sunday.

Texas and 12 other states asked O'Connor to halt the directive after the federal government told U.S. public schools in May that transgender students must be allowed to use bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with their chosen gender identity.

That announcement came days after the Justice Department sued North Carolina over a state law that requires people to use public bathrooms that correspond with the gender on their birth certificates. U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch had likened that law to policies of racial segregation.

Republicans have argued such laws are commonsense privacy safeguards.

Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

Hopefully, Obama will remove the Texas's federal funding. Texas didn't want federal money to help expand Medicaid when the federal government was going to pick up 90% (95%?), of the cost for them. Nor did they do what was needed to get their citizens good priced health plans with the marketplace. I guess they don't care about the education of their students, just like they don't care about the health of their poor.

They certainly aren't stopping trans men, it is masculine looking females that get the harassment. Their expectation is that FTMs would look like masculine females or as "inbetween" genders. They would never expect that the guy with the full beard who uses the men's room is the one that has a birth certificate that says female on it.

Idiots.

BullDog · 08-22-2016, 05:02 PM

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Originally Posted by DapperButch

Hopefully, Obama will remove the Texas's federal funding. Texas didn't want federal money to help expand Medicaid when the federal government was going to pick up 90% (95%?), of the cost for them. Nor did they do what was needed to get their citizens good priced health plans with the marketplace. I guess they don't care about the education of their students, just like they don't care about the health of their poor.

They certainly aren't stopping trans men, it is masculine looking females that get the harassment. Their expectation is that FTMs would look like masculine females or as "inbetween" genders. They would never expect that the guy with the full beard who uses the men's room is the one that has a birth certificate that says female on it.

Idiots.

Yes, that is what is so stupid. Of course it's highly discriminatory, but there is no way it could be enforced.

dreadgeek · 08-23-2016, 02:53 PM

I was published at Huffington Post! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/adrien..._11258546.html

DapperButch · 08-25-2016, 09:28 PM

When I read these articles I always feel this desire to invite every trans Texan to move into my home....

I am so blessed to live in in a democrat heavy/liberal state.

http://www.houstonpress.com/news/tex...ampaign=buffer

Lyte · 08-25-2016, 10:23 PM

Yeah... Texas blows in this area.

JDeere · 08-26-2016, 04:38 PM

Yeah Texas is pretty bad but why cut federal funding, if they do it affects me and some of my friends, to me that's not cool!

Then again I have differing opinions on issues.

08-22-2016, 08:42 AM	#1
Anya Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Lesbian non-stone femme Preferred Pronoun?: She, her Relationship Status: Committed to being good to myself Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: West Coast Posts: 8,258 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 39,306 Thanked 40,447 Times in 7,284 Posts Rep Power: 21474858	August 22, 2016 The Associated Press Texas (AP) — A federal judge in Texas has temporarily blocked an Obama administration directive on bathroom rights for transgender students in U.S. public schools. U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor in Fort Worth issued the preliminary injunction Sunday. Texas and 12 other states asked O'Connor to halt the directive after the federal government told U.S. public schools in May that transgender students must be allowed to use bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with their chosen gender identity. That announcement came days after the Justice Department sued North Carolina over a state law that requires people to use public bathrooms that correspond with the gender on their birth certificates. U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch had likened that law to policies of racial segregation. Republicans have argued such laws are commonsense privacy safeguards. Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. __________________ ~Anya~ Democracy Dies in Darkness ~Washington Post "...I'm deeply concerned by recently adopted policies which punish children for their parents’ actions ... The thought that any State would seek to deter parents by inflicting such abuse on children is unconscionable." UN Human Rights commissioner

08-23-2016, 02:53 PM	#4
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08-25-2016, 09:28 PM	#5
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08-26-2016, 04:38 PM	#7
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08-25-2016, 10:23 PM	#6
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