Obama in the girls’ bathroom

Published May 14, 2016 5:35am ET



If that headline shocks you, it shouldn’t — at least not according to President Obama. He took an astounding step Friday, issuing a decree about the washrooms schoolchildren should use. Without any constitutional authority or plausible legal basis, he ruled that boys who say they are girls and girls who say they are boys should be allowed to use the public school locker rooms of the gender with which they claim to identify.

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