Kansas Public Schools Vote to IgnoreObama's Transgender Bathroom Decree
"Decisions about the care, safety and well-being of all students are best made locally."
6.23.2016
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At least some people aren't signing on to our Emperor's transgender bathroom decree.
The Kansas State Board of Education unanimously voted to reject the Obama Administration's transgender bathroom directive.
"We are firm in our belief that decisions about the care, safety and well-being of all students are best made by the local school district based on the needs and desires of the students, parents and communities they serve," reads an official statement from the board.
"In Kansas, like many other states, our schools have been addressing transgender student needs with sensitivity and success for many years." Christian Post reports:
In May, President Obama sent a non-legally binding letter to all public schools in the country, directing them to allow students to use whatever facilities correspond with their chosen gender identity. The letter threatened loss of funding to schools that don't comply.In an interview with BuzzFeed News, President Obama argued that such a move was necessary to protect the dignity of transgendered individuals."We're talking about kids, and anybody who's been in school, been in high school, who's been a parent, I think should realize that kids who are sometimes in the minority — kids who have a different sexual orientation or are transgender — are subject to a lot of bullying, potentially they are vulnerable," said Obama.
Obama received backlash from a number of state governors, with Texas and ten other states ultimately filing a lawsuit against the federal government over the decree.
The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas states:
"Plaintiffs include a diverse coalition of States, top State officials, and local school districts, spanning from the Gulf Coast to the Great Lakes, and from the Grand Canyon to the Grand Isle, that stand behind the singular principle that the solemn duty of the Federal Executive is to enforce the law of the land, and not rewrite it by administrative fiat," read the complaint."Defendants have conspired to turn workplaces and educational settings across the country into laboratories for a massive social experiment, flouting the democratic process, and running roughshod over commonsense policies protecting children and basic privacy rights. Defendants' rewriting of Title VII and Title IX is wholly incompatible with Congressional text. Absent action in Congress, the States, or local communities, Defendants cannot foist these radical changes on the nation."
Kansas' Board of Education follows the Virginia school district, which passed a similar rejection of the transgender bathroom directive earlier this year. Hopefully, more state school boards will wake up and follow suit.
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