The Justice and Education departments issued a joint guidance on how schools must follow federal law in regard to bathrooms, changing rooms, and other gender-related spaces.
The Obama administration took an unprecedented step towards equal access for transgender students today.
Every Title IX-compliant school in the country received a letter stating that if they want to continue to receive federal funding, they must provide trans students with equal access to bathrooms, sports teams and other programs.
In other words: schools cannot discriminate on the basis of gender identity. Here’s a clip from the letter:
As a condition of receiving Federal funds, a school agrees that it will not exclude, separate, deny benefits to, or otherwise treat differently on the basis of sex any person in its educational programs or activities unless expressly authorized to do so under Title IX or its implementing regulations. The Departments treat a student’s gender identity as the student’s sex for purposes of Title IX and its implementing regulations. This means that a school must not treat a transgender student differently from the way it treats other students of the same gender identity. The Departments’ interpretation is consistent with courts’ and other agencies’ interpretations of Federal laws prohibiting sex discrimination.
The Departments interpret Title IX to require that when a student or the student’s parent or guardian, as appropriate, notifies the school administration that the student will assert a gender identity that differs from previous representations or records, the school will begin treating the student consistent with the student’s gender identity. Under Title IX, there is no medical diagnosis or treatment requirement that students must meet as a prerequisite to being treated consistent with their gender identity. Because transgender students often are unable to obtain identification documents that reflect their gender identity (e.g., due to restrictions imposed by state or local law in their place of birth or residence), requiring students to produce such identification documents in order to treat them consistent with their gender identity may violate Title IX when doing so has the practical effect of limiting or denying students equal access to an educational program or activity.
A school’s Title IX obligation to ensure nondiscrimination on the basis of sex requires schools to provide transgender students equal access to educational programs and activities even in circumstances in which other students, parents, or community members raise objections or concerns. As is consistently recognized in civil rights cases, the desire to accommodate others’ discomfort cannot justify a policy that singles out and disadvantages a particular class of students.
As is consistently recognized in civil rights cases, the desire to accommodate others’ discomfort cannot justify a policy that singles out and disadvantages a particular class of students.
Please stop using grunge as a synonym for emo, or using the tag "grunge" to post hyper emotional shit that you'd see on any scene kid's MySpace. For fucks sake, when did that become a thing? Is it just that people need someone to talk to?
I think it’s important to look at someone, anyone different than yourself, and search for similarities instead of differences. Differences are easy to spot, and feed your ego. Similarities strengthen your empathy.
Lorn is probably my favorite artist. The beats: the signature gritty sadness and inquisitiveness of each and every song, lyrics distorted and kept to a bare minimum, forcing you to listen.
Wolves don’t lose sleep over the opinions of sheep.
I’m 23 and have thus far successfully stayed away from “socmed” (sohsh-meed). Because fuck you for selling my data. But the need to send my insignificant opinions out into the vast space that comprises the internet circumvents all of that.
I’m pretty sure I just landed my dream job. I mean, I got the job, pretty sure it’s going to be fucking awesome. Debugging your javascript? Sure. The closer to the code I am, the happier I’ll be. Engineering position? Yes please.
I read this article the other day, well, I read a few articles, about women at startups. The fucked up thing was that these articles were focused exclusively on superficial things- what they wear to work, how they cope with stress, blah blah fucking blah. Not once did I see a decent profile of a true, hardcore programmer (fuck your UX/ UI design bullshit) with a vagina. Damn. This is what I’ve gotten myself into.
My dad always said I had a habit of taking the path less traveled, screwing myself into thinking the hard way was the only way. This became evident when I moved to California on a whim, with no previous experience in the state at all. Even more evident when I became a fairly successful artist at 20. Maybe eventually, I’ll develop a sense of pride in that. All it says to me right now is that people aren’t trying hard enough.
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