The law stipulates that all students must use bathrooms and locker rooms that match the sex listed on their birth certificates
"This bill is antithetical to all the work we have done to ensure individuals in the LGBT community can live a life free from discrimination"
"To be clear the Supreme Court has not directed Commissioner Masters & DFPS to continue investigating parents of trans youth for child abuse"
According to staff, teachers are afraid the move is intended as “a fishing expedition to prove that teachers encouraged students to protest”
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"Today’s decision ensures that the businesses who welcome them are not forced to become instruments for politicians’ discrimination”
Trans kids have been the target of political attacks, and lawmakers have been abusing their authority to bully health care providers
"We must not play into fear or treat some of our most vulnerable community members – our transgender young people – like political pawns"
Fort Riley Middle School, located on the sprawling home to the U.S. Army's First Division, has policies to protect LGBTQ+ students