Feds say Illinois school district broke law by banning transgender student from girls’ locker room

By Michael E. Miller, The Washington Post

Around the country, high schools are increasingly confronting a thorny issue: Should transgender students be allowed into the locker room?

And increasingly, the federal government is stepping in to provide an answer: Schools must give trans students full locker room access.

Or else.

On Monday, the Obama administration again weighed in on the issue with the release of a report slamming a suburban Chicago public school district for not providing a transgender student with access to the girls’ locker rooms.

Read the story here.

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