November 30, 2015
MO district defies federal transgender mandate: Keeps boys out of girls’ bathrooms
MARIONVILLE, Mo. – Across the nation, hundreds of school districts have been bowing to pressure from the Obama administration to allow transgender students to use the restroom or shower facility of their choice, regardless of their biological gender.
The administration has threatened to take away millions of dollars in federal funding from districts that refuse to comply, and that’s usually enough to gain the cooperation of local education officials.
But that’s not the case in a growing number of school districts in Missouri, where school boards are drawing the line at allowing biological boys to use girls restrooms and showers, and vice versa. Read more here.