A Mere Blip in the Bathroom Wars?

The bathroom wars wage on. Repealing the Obama-era edict that hardened the conflict, as President Trump did Wednesday, changes little in practice.

The Trump administration rescinded guidance that required federally funded schools to permit transgender students’ use of whichever restroom or locker room corresponds to their gender identity. The guidance, a “Dear Colleague” Letter the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights issued last May, relied on a reinterpretation of Title IX, a forty-five-year-old statute outlawing sex discrimination in schools—an interpretation the Obama administration had been rolling out, by degrees, for years.