The Department of Education’s civil rights office announced Wednesday that a transgender elementary school student in South Carolina will be allowed to pick the restroom with which the student identifies.
Here’s more from the Associated Press:
According to the department’s announcement, the school voluntarily agreed to take the following actions, verbatim:
The issue dates to an August complaint from last year, when the student’s father alleged discrimination against Dorchester on the basis of not allowing her to use the girls’ restroom and instead requiring that she use a private restroom in her school’s office or nurse’s station. In a letter the department says was issued Thursday, Dorchester was found in violation of Title IX.
Wednesday’s announcement brought a quick resolution to the matter.
“I commend Dorchester County School District Two for committing to protect the civil rights of all students and ensuring that all students have equal access to education programs and activities,” Catherine E. Lhamon, assistant secretary for civil rights, said in a statement.
Jonathan Last recently editorialized in THE WEEKLY STANDARD about the issue of transgender bathroom access, arguing how the steady march of transgender activism in our institutions defies logic and reasoning. “If this all seems like an inordinate amount of heavy artillery for an infinitesimally tiny issue, that’s actually the point,” Last wrote. ‘Much as fights in academia are so bitter because the stakes are so small, transgender activists are crushingly authoritarian because the justice of their cause is so uncertain. What the trans project lacks in moral and logical clarity, it hopes to overcome with vehemence and intimidation.” Read the whole thing here.
