The Obama administration this week will announce a directive that will require federal buildings to guarantee transgender bathroom access.
The Obama administration is announcing a new directive that in all federal buildings — of which there are more than 9,000 — transgender people must have the right to use the bathrooms that affirm their gender identity.
The new regulation is the latest in a series of pro-trans policy positions the Obama administration has taken.
The Justice Department in May filed a civil rights lawsuit against North Carolina over House Bill 2, which bans trans people from using restrooms consistent with their gender identity and prohibits local municipalities from enacting LGBT-inclusive nondiscrimination measures.
The Obama administration last October filed a brief in support of Gavin Grimm, a trans student who filed a lawsuit against his Virginia school district’s controversial policy that bans him from using the boys restroom or locker room. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in 2012 ruled that discrimination against employees on the basis of their gender identity amounts to sex discrimination under federal law.
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