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Source: 30dB.com – Education%20Department-and-Transgender
The full extent of how that decision would manifest itself is now becoming clear — and Social is appalled at what it’s seeing. The Education Dept. has been dismissing discrimination cases raised by transgender students who want to use the bathroom that matches their gender identity, and the department officially announced this week that it wouldn’t hear any such cases in the future. DeVos and company have taken a radically different stance on the protections afforded to transgender students by Title IX. Education Dept. spokeswoman Elizabeth Hill told CNN, “Title IX prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, not gender identity.” She pulled a Trumpian maneuver of blaming the issue on logistics rather than an Administration-wide set of right wing beliefs, adding, “The secretary would contend that it is the job of Congress or the courts, not the bureaucracy, to determine whether or not the term ‘sex’ under Title IX encompasses ‘gender identity.’” Over the last three days, “Education Department + Transgender” has just a nine percentage positive score on Social. –Alex Shultz
Republished from 30dB