Trump administration withdraws protections for transgender students

The Trump administration Wednesday rolled back an Obama-era regulation extending certain protections to transgender students.

The Department of Justice and the Department of Education issued new guidance Wednesday evening rolling back the policies, citing a need to further consider the legal issues.

The guidelines required public schools to allow children to use bathrooms and other facilities that correspond to their gender identities.

“[We] had decided to withdraw and rescind the above-referenced guidance documents in order to further and more completely consider the legal issues involved,” the DOJ and DOE said in a memo Wednesday. “The Departments thus will not rely on the views expressed within them.”