Kansas to ignore Obama’s transgender bathroom directive
The Kansas State Board of Education has voted to ignore the Obama administration’s directive on accommodating transgender students, joining a wave of opposition from politicians nationwide who say the decree amounts to federal overreach.
The Kansas board argued that local schools are best suited to decide how to handle issues that transgender students confront in school, including which bathrooms they are allowed to use and which name and gender appears on class rosters and other school records.
Its vote to push back against the Obama administration’s decree — which requires schools to allow transgender students to use the bathroom that matches their gender identity — was unanimous Tuesday afternoon, according to the Associated Press....
