The Obama administration set federal guidelines to give transgender students preferential treatment over normal students when it comes to using bathrooms and locker rooms. The Trump administration is about to roll back those federal guidelines and reverse the preferential treatment of transgenders.
The Trump administration plans to roll back protections for transgender students and is preparing changes to federal guidance that required the nation’s public schools to allow students to use the bathrooms and locker rooms that matched their gender identities.
A White House spokesman said Tuesday that the Education and Justice departments would soon issue new guidance on the matter. He hinted that it would be different from the Obama administration’s position, which was that denying transgender students the right to use the bathroom of their choice violates federal prohibitions against sex discrimination.
“I think that all you have to do is look at what the president’s view has been for a long time, that this is not something that the federal government should be involved in, this is a states’ rights issue,” spokesman Sean Spicer told reporters at a news conference Tuesday afternoon.
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