Obama’s Transgender Bathroom Policy Blocked by Federal Judge

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Bloomberg:

Tom Korosec

Aug. 22 2016

 

The Obama administration was barred by a judge from enforcing a directive that U.S. public schools allow transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms according to their gender identity.

 

A federal judge in Fort Worth, Texas, on Sunday sided with Texas and 12 other states that argued the administration’s policy usurps local control and threatens students’ safety and privacy.

 

The use of public bathrooms and locker rooms by transgender people has become the latest front in civil rights struggles between social conservatives and the administration following battles over same-sex marriage and military service by openly gay members of the armed forces in which President Barack Obama has sided with gay-rights advocates.

 

The ruling by U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor comes after the U.S. Supreme Court on Aug 3 temporarily blocked an order that would let a transgender student use the boys’ bathrooms during his senior year at a Virginia high school.

 

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Fort Worth-Based Federal Judge Blocks Obama Transgender Guidelines

· by Kiah Collier

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Aug. 22, 2016

A federal judge in Fort Worth has blocked Obama administration guidelines directing the nation’s public schools to allow transgender students to use bathrooms and other facilities that align with their gender identity. In a 38-page order released Sunday, U.S. District Court Judge Reed O'Connor said the “status quo” should remain in place nationwide for now.

FULL STORY

https://www.texastribune.org/2016/08/22/forth-worth-judge-blocks-obama-transgender-guideli/

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The Brief: Appeal filed in transgender bathroom ruling

 

Action comes two days after a Texas judge confirmed that his earlier ruling blocking the Obama administration’s federal directive applies nationwide.

 

by Alex Samuels Oct. 21, 2016

 

The Big Conversation

 

On Thursday, the Obama administration filed notice that it will appeal a Texas judge’s ruling that blocks federal guidelines for transgender student bathroom use.

 

Fort Worth-based Judge Reed O’Connor affirmed Tuesday that his preliminary injunction against the transgender bathroom guidelines apply nationwide, not just in the 13 states that tried to block the federal ruling. Despite claims from opponents of the federal directive that the “status quo” should remain in place, the Obama administration says it is asking the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn O’Connor’s injunction.

https://www.texastribune.org/2016/10/21/the-brief/

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Court adds five new cases, including transgender bathroom dispute, to docket

By Amy Howe on Oct 28, 2016 at 4:44 pm

[update at 5:29 p.m.: This post has been expanded to include a discussion of all today’s grants.]

 

The Supreme Court added five new cases to its docket this afternoon. Among the new grants was Gloucester County School Board v. G.G., the case of a transgender student who identifies as a boy and wants to be allowed to use the boys’ bathroom at his Virginia high school. The announcement that the justices would hear oral argument in the case was not particularly surprising: Last summer, the court granted the school board’s request to put the lower court’s ruling in the student’s favor on hold until the school board could file its petition for Supreme Court review. That ruling required the votes of five justices – the court’s four more conservative justices plus Justice Stephen Breyer, who announced that he was voting to block the lower court’s ruling as a courtesy – while the votes of only four justices are required to grant review on the merits.

http://www.scotusblog.com/2016/10/court-adds-five-new-cases-including-transgender-bathroom-dispute-to-docket/#more-248037