• WATCH: Spicer addresses immigration, protections for transgender students at news briefing

    WATCH: Spicer addresses immigration, protections for transgender students at news briefing

    Feb 23, 2017 08:01 PM EST

    https://youtu.be/h3dIbKcJhrg White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer addressed protections for transgender students as well as the Trump administration's immigration policies during a news briefing Thursday. Watch Spicer speak in the player above. The Trump administration on Wednesday ended federal protection for transgender students that required schools ...

  • WATCH: Education Secretary Betsy DeVos defends White House decision to withdraw transgender bathroom rules

    WATCH: Education Secretary Betsy DeVos defends White House decision to withdraw transgender bathroom rules

    Feb 23, 2017 03:36 PM EST

    Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is defending the decision to rescind public-school bathroom rules for transgender students. Speaking Thursday at the Conservative Political Action Conference, the annual gathering that draws an estimated 10,000 activists to National Harbor in Maryland, she says the guidance "was a huge example of the ...

  • Trump administration lifts transgender bathroom guidance

    Trump administration lifts transgender bathroom guidance

    Feb 23, 2017 12:51 AM EST

    ... that issue. In a phone interview with the AP, Grimm said of the Trump action: "It's not positive. It has the possibility of hurting transgender students and transgender people. We're going to keep fighting like we have been and keep fighting for the right thing." A patchwork of ...

  • How scrapping transgender bathroom guidelines impacts schools

    How scrapping transgender bathroom guidelines impacts schools

    Feb 23, 2017 12:20 AM EST

    ... that they have had very little problems with them. They say that students' requests to use them are pretty rare. The most recent estimate on transgender students said that transgender children between the ages of 13 and 17, they make up about 0.7 percent of the population. So we ...

  • What happens if Trump pulls the transgender bathroom guidance?

    What happens if Trump pulls the transgender bathroom guidance?

    Feb 22, 2017 02:42 PM EST

    WASHINGTON — The Trump administration could revise or withdraw an Obama-era directive requiring public schools to let transgender students use bathrooms and locker rooms that match their chosen gender identity. White House spokesman Sean Spicer said Tuesday the Justice Department is working on a new set of guidelines on bathroom ...

  • Parents of transgender students appeal to Trump on bathrooms

    Parents of transgender students appeal to Trump on bathrooms

    Feb 15, 2017 02:01 PM EST

    ... the election campaign Trump said that transgender students can use the bathroom they like. An estimated 0.7 percent of youth ages 13-17 in the United Sates, or about 150,000 people, identify as transgender, according to a study by The Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law.

  • U.S. withdraws stay request in transgender bathroom case

    U.S. withdraws stay request in transgender bathroom case

    Feb 12, 2017 03:19 PM EST

    ... biological and anatomical differences between male and female students as determined at their birth." READ NEXT: Here’s what most people get wrong about the transgender community The ruling, he said, was not about the policy issues of transgender rights, but about his conclusion that federal officials simply did not ...

  • Demand surges for clinicians serving transgender youth -- and for earlier treatment

    Demand surges for clinicians serving transgender youth -- and for earlier treatment

    Dec 21, 2016 03:53 PM EST

    ... she said. One low point: Since entering high school, she’s not allowed to play on girls’ sports teams. Doctors on the front lines of transgender youth care say they are heartened that children are coming in at younger ages and that transgender youth clinics are opening in suburban areas ...

  • News Wrap: Supreme Court to hear first case on transgender rights

    News Wrap: Supreme Court to hear first case on transgender rights

    Oct 28, 2016 11:18 PM EST

    ... JUDY WOODRUFF: In the day's other news: The U.S. Supreme Court announced today that it will take up the issue of transgender rights for the first time. The justices accepted a case from Virginia. It involves a transgender teen who was barred from using the boys' bathroom ...

  • Supreme Court to hear Virginia school board appeal on transgender teen case

    Supreme Court to hear Virginia school board appeal on transgender teen case

    Oct 28, 2016 07:40 PM EST

    WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will take up transgender rights for the first time in the case of a Virginia school board that wants to prevent a transgender teenager from using the boys' bathroom at his high school. The justices said Friday they will hear the appeal from the Gloucester County ...