The administration has announced the withdrawal of federal guidelines issued by former President Barack Obama, guidelines that directed schools to allow transgender students to use the bathroom that matched their gender identity and threatened to withhold funding from schools that did not comply.
Obama's directive was championed by LGBTQ rights activists and their allies. The legislators introducing "bathroom bills" claim they are about public safety. But it’s important to know that in the 18 states (and more than 200 cities) that have laws and ordinances protecting transgender people from discrimination, there have been no increases in public safety incidents. None. Why? Because there are laws in every state which make it illegal for anyone to enter a restroom to harm or harass people, or invade their privacy. Police use those laws to arrest perpetrators and keep people safe. Protecting LGBT people from discrimination doesn’t change that!
Their real goal of bathroom bills is to scare people, to divide Americans, and to see transgender people as a threat so please come out to take a stand for transgender equality. All students should feel safe and protected in their schools and their communities.