UNC System Moves Cautiously on Transgender Bathroom Rule
(Photo: Ethan Hyman, The News and Observer) The University of North Carolina system has announced that it will not be enforcing a law that would require transgender students to use the bathroom that corresponds More...
Transgender Bathroom Directive Prompts Lawsuit from 11 States
(Photo: Wikimedia, Creative Commons) Eleven states have sued the Obama administration over its sweeping directive urging all public school districts to grant transgender students access to bathrooms that correspond More...
EdSec King Calls For Repeal of ‘Hateful’ School Bathroom Laws
(Photo: Susan Walsh, AP) The Department of Education will not stand by and allow schools to ignore federal law that protects the rights of LGBT students, according to Education Secretary John King, Jr., who has called More...
South Carolina High School Shifts Transgender Bathroom Policy
(Image: WMBF News) After being threatened with a lawsuit, Horry County Schools in South Carolina agreed to allow a transgender student use the boys’ restroom, but only after he was suspended in January. The More...
Delaware High Schooler Killed in Bathroom Fight
(Photo: AP) Education officials and a community are stunned after a 16-year-old student at a high school in Wilmington, Delaware was killed after a fight in a bathroom. The sophomore, Amy Joyner-Francis, from More...
Virginia Bathroom Rules Constitute Discrimination, Court Rules
(Photo: Maliz Ong, Creative Commons) A federal appeals court has ruled that a Virginia high school policy that barred a transgender pupil from using the boys’ bathrooms is discriminatory. This case, which More...
North Carolina’s ‘Bathroom Bill’ Proving Tough to Enforce
(Photo: Pixabay, Creative Commons) Administrators and staff at the University of North Carolina have been told to abide by the state’s contentious new law that requires transgender people to use restrooms More...
NYC’s de Blasio Signs Order To Allow All To Use Bathroom of Choice
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has signed an order that will require that single-sex bathrooms be available to anyone who needs such accommodations regardless of gender. A transgender activist in Queens, Bianey More...
South Dakota’s Daugaard Vetoes Transgender Bathroom Bill
Gov. Dennis Daugaard of South Dakota vetoed a bill this week that would have made public school transgender students use bathrooms and locker rooms that correlated with their birth sex. The Republican governor, More...
Charlotte City Council Passes ‘Bathroom Bill,’ Schools Not Affected
In a seven to four vote that took place earlier this week, the Charlotte City Council passed an LGBT nondiscrimination bill despite a warning from North Carolina Governor Pat McRory that the state may play a role More...