Monday, August 20, 2018

A Snowball In Hell

I don’t see any help coming from the current administration to help trans students (or for any other students) who are being discriminated against. The Secretary of Education doesn’t believe in Title IX and has said that they are not going to enforce the law and leave it up to the states.
Transgender students asked Betsy DeVos for help. Here's what happened.
The Trump administration 'has absolutely no clue' what families go through, one mother said.
Politico
By Caitlin Emma
August 18, 2018

Because he’s a transgender boy, his school district barred him from the much more convenient boy’s restrooms. “It was isolating and alienating,” Howe, who was identified at birth as female, told POLITICO, the first time he has spoken publicly about being a transgender high school kid. And it didn’t stop there.

Conservative parents told the debate coach they didn’t want Howe sharing a room with their sons on trips to competitions. The frustrated coach argued that Howe should be treated the same as the other kids, but school administrators sided with the parents and wouldn’t budge. He roomed alone, singled out again.
So he turned to the Department of Education office of civil rights for help and all he heard was crickets.
After his graduation in 2017 Howe filed a complaint with federal civil rights officials at the Department of Education, hoping to ease the way for other transgender students at his school to use the bathrooms of their choice. But an examination of federal records by POLITICO shows that his complaint is one of at least five involving transgender students denied bathroom access that was thrown out by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, who has halted such investigations.
The courts have ruled over and over again that we are covered by Title IX, numerous courts including the two Supreme Court rulings, but she has ignored all that and went by a 1960 definition of sex.
The Education Department declined to answer questions about its handling of transgender cases, but, after this story was initially published, released a statement saying it is “committed to defending the civil rights of all students and ensuring all students have an equal opportunity to learn in an environment free from harassment and discrimination.” It said it would continue to use “current law and current regulation to determine if any child in school is being harassed or discriminated against due to race, sex or disability.”
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Drake and Demoya Gordon, an attorney with Lambda Legal who is assisting him, said federal investigators stopped responding to their inquiries after October 2017. Up until that point, Gordon said federal investigators had told her repeatedly that they were “waiting for instructions from higher up” on how to handle complaints over bathroom access.
For the Trump administration sex is what is between your legs.

And consider this… Trump and the Republicans are filling the courts with judges who put the Bible before the Constitution. Remember that the Republicans stopped approving any judges appointed by President Obama well not they are literally working overtime to fill the positions before what they fear is a congressional takeover by the Democrats.

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