Restroom Guidance a Thorny Study in Administrative Law

Education Week: Two radically different narratives are emerging about the federal guidance over transgender students and restrooms.

President Barack Obama's administration asserts that its guidance calling for schools to allow transgender students to choose restrooms and locker rooms "consistent with their gender identity" is an interpretation of long-standing regulations under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, the federal law barring discrimination "based on sex" in federally funded education programs.

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