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US state moves towards transgender student bathroom ban

A bill passed on Tuesday would ban transgender students from using bathrooms or locker rooms that match their gender identities.

SOUTH DAKOTA COULD soon be the first US state to ban transgender students from using bathrooms or locker rooms that match their gender identities.

The bill passed by the state’s legislature on Tuesday comes amid backlash against a stream of legislative and legal victories for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender rights.

South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard has not yet said whether he will sign or veto the bill.

In a landmark June ruling, the US Supreme Court overturned same-sex marriage bans, and 17 states have enacted laws to protect students from bullying or harassment based upon their sexual orientation or gender identity.

“Over a dozen states have considered anti-LGBT bills this legislative session – but none has moved as far as South Dakota’s,” the National Center for Transgender Equality in the US said in a statement.

If the governor signs this bill into law, South Dakota will be the first state with a law prohibiting trans students from using the right restrooms.

The bill restricts access to bathrooms and locker rooms in all public schools to students of the ‘same biological sex’. The restrictions extend beyond the schools to include any off-campus events like a sports tournament which may involve ‘being in a state of undress in the presence of other students’.

The bill aims to evade federal law prohibiting discrimination in schools by offering ‘reasonable accommodation’ to transgender students such as allowing them to use bathrooms and locker rooms designated for single-occupancy or faculty use.

It also stipulates that the state will be responsible for covering legal expenses if school districts are sued for complying with the law.

The Human Rights Campaign called the legislation ‘extreme and dangerous’ and said it would only ‘exacerbate the discrimination and harassment that transgender students already face’.

© – AFP 2016

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    Mute alphanautica
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    Jan 11th 2018, 8:07 AM

    If the first question is ‘explain how you rented and sold so many of your properties to the Russian mob at weird prices’ I can understand why he’d rather avoid the interview.

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    Mute Thought for Food
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    Jan 11th 2018, 8:53 AM

    @alphanautica:

    They should ask Clinton why she failed to declare payments to her foundation from the owner of a uranium business that was later sold, without objection from the State Department, to the Russians.

    If you want to talk about collusion then let’s talk about real collisions.

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    Mute Stephen murphy
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    Jan 11th 2018, 9:41 AM

    @Thought for Food: Are you confused, colliding with a collusion now and looking for distractions?

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    Jan 11th 2018, 9:42 AM

    @Thought for Food: Let’s talk about BOTH.

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    Mute Dave O Keeffe
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    Jan 11th 2018, 10:13 AM

    @Thought for Food: 1. She wasn’t in control of the foundation at the time 2. She wasn’t involved in the decision 3. The uranium is still exactly where it was before the deal.

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    Jan 11th 2018, 10:44 AM

    @Thought for Food: oh look a Clinton squirrel

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    Jan 11th 2018, 12:11 PM

    @Thought for Food: So your going by story brought by Stve Bannon then?

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    Jan 11th 2018, 1:17 PM

    @Thought for Food: multiple departments approved that deal there have been numerous investigations who have found nothing wrong and not 1 once of uranium has left America

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    Jan 11th 2018, 1:53 PM

    @bmul:those pesky facts hurt the Trump fans

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    Jan 11th 2018, 2:20 PM

    @Thought for Food: WHATABOUT WHATABOUT WHATABOUT WHATABOUT WHATABOUT WHATABOUT WHATABOUT WHATABOUT WHATABOUT WHATABOUT WHATABOUT WHATABOUT….

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    Jan 11th 2018, 7:50 AM

    Trumps own words
    “the world is laughing at the stupidity they are witnessing” hes not wrong

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    Jan 11th 2018, 3:59 PM

    @Itsme: lmfao!!!

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    Jan 11th 2018, 8:28 AM

    President Trump is under investigation by Mueller team for almost 9.months….If there was any real proof of Russian links it would have been leaked to all their friends in Democrat party and CNN by now….Democrats will try and keep this investigation going as long as Trump is in White house ….Same as Republicans kept Kenneth Starr investigation going against President Clinton for 7 years…

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    Jan 11th 2018, 8:34 AM

    @John003:
    All true but the Starr investigation is one of the key reasons the Clinton’s are not back in the white house.
    Few believe they will oust Trump before the next election and any thing could happen in three years.
    It’s a long game they are playing.

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    Jan 11th 2018, 9:14 AM

    @John003: “f there was any real proof of Russian links it would have been leaked to all their friends in Democrat party and CNN by now”

    So, for an investigation to have any validity, it has to be wrapped up within 9 months? How dumb. It took over two years for the Watergate investigation to get Nixon to resign, learn your history.

    You won’t quit with this idiotic comparison to the Starr investigation, will you? You’re a broken record.

    The Starr investigation uncovered the shady behaviour of Bill Clinton in the White House and tarnished the reputation of a bad President forever. If you’re implying it wasn’t worth doing, you’re wrong.

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    Jan 11th 2018, 9:45 AM

    @John003: You Trumpanzees, are like sheep and would follow your shepherd over a cliff.

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    Jan 11th 2018, 10:18 AM

    @Malachi: no, I think he’s saying for it to be legitimate they have to leak every piece of information they get. They keep forgetting that it was Papadopoulos that got this investigation started.

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    Jan 11th 2018, 10:37 AM

    @Dave O Keeffe: The point about Watergate stands, so. There was no “real proof” leaked to the media 9 months that directly incriminated Nixon, either. I’m not exactly convinced Trump had anything to do with the collusion, but the premise of the argument makes no sense.

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    Jan 11th 2018, 12:47 PM

    @Malachi: ya, that’s what I was trying to say but badly. Hús argument seems to be “if they were good at what they do they’d be leaking everything and destroying the integrity of the investigation”

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    Jan 11th 2018, 3:02 PM

    @Dave O Keeffe: Yeah, then if they leaked anything they’d be criticised anyway by the same people… that’s how this works.

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    Jan 11th 2018, 8:29 AM

    Israel has huge influence on him……but nobody wants to talk about that…..ehh em…

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    Jan 11th 2018, 8:56 AM

    @Johnnathan Biskalero:

    That’s probably because Jerusalem doesn’t have nukes aimed at Washington and doesn’t compete with US interests on a global scale.

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    Jan 11th 2018, 9:15 AM

    @Johnnathan Biskalero: Nobody has any problem talking about those links. It’s the ONLY thing you ever talk about, though.

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    Jan 11th 2018, 9:46 AM

    @Thought for Food: Israel is doing to Palestine, what the US has done to the Native Americans and that’s what make them great friends!

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    Jan 11th 2018, 10:04 AM

    @Stephen murphy: Remember Vietnam, when America almost single handed wanted to stop the spread of Communism throughout south-east Asia. How many lives did that cost. Then there was Iraq and WMD, another Republican gaff…!!

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    Jan 11th 2018, 9:31 AM

    Maybe, just maybe we’ll have one day without a Trump story from The Journal. Maybe they’ll consider it for lent and give it up for 40 days

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    Jan 11th 2018, 12:16 PM

    @Senan O’Keeffe: You have a lot off time on your hands yourself, go read the the sun or the mail.

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    Jan 11th 2018, 1:59 PM

    @Shane Fleming: When there’s a pre-Alzheimer’s patient with narcissistic personality disorder at the helm of the world’s largest nuclear arsenal, guess what?? It’s going to be news every day.

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    Jan 11th 2018, 4:03 PM

    @Shane Fleming: I’ve an idea STOP READING THE ARTICLES!!!! And leave the rest of us in peace.

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    Jan 11th 2018, 10:59 AM

    It was the multi billionaire Mercer family which put Trump into the Presidency. Russian interference contributed but was not the prime factor.

    It is quite possible that Trump was unaware that he was give the Presidency by means of manipulation. Certainly, Trump’s ego would lead him to prefer to think that he won the Presidency as a result of popularity.

    The US got a dismally bad President although Trump is good at look8mg after his fellow billionaires.

    The US is almost at the point of being a plutocracy.

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    Jan 11th 2018, 11:15 AM

    I continue to be bemused that people, especially Trump, can still say, and with a straight face, that “nobody’s found any collusion at any level”. They have. Several members of Trumps campaign have admitted that they”colluded” with Russia, where the lifting of sanctions and getting illegally obtained information on Clinton, were both discussed. Three senior members of his campaign team have been charged with offenses all linked to Russia. Trump has also been accused of interfering with the investigation by the head of the FBI who he then promptly sacked. What more do you want FFS?

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    Jan 11th 2018, 8:39 AM

    Another lie :)

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    Jan 11th 2018, 11:23 AM

    First it was racism, then it was “his tweets”, then it was Russian collusion, then back to racism, then back to collusion, last week it was “mental illness” and now back to collusion. Jesus the anti Trump crowd are desperate. @Journal, How about the story of the twitter engineer and executives busted trying to sell the private Twitter DMs of Trump, espionage by Twitter staff.

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    Jan 11th 2018, 12:20 PM

    @Eleanor of Aquitaine: Not desperate looking at facts first, before allegations before mouting off in early morly morning tweets in capitol letters while haing a big fat burger from mackyd’s. He is a racist while earlier on he offered to pay investigators to look into Obams’s birth cert and found no proof but he (Trump) would not accept that.

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    Jan 11th 2018, 12:51 PM

    @Ossi Fritsche: Sorry for the typo’s very bad day.

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    Jan 11th 2018, 2:05 PM

    @Eleanor of Aquitaine: There’s a story about his gross ineptitude every day, isn’t there?? And the James O’Keefe twitter crap is debunked.

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    Jan 11th 2018, 4:24 PM

    @₱I₷₠₷ ੩⑭:

    I guess you’re not too up to date, troll.

    https://youtu.be/64gTjdUrDFQ

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    Jan 11th 2018, 6:20 PM

    @Ossi Fritsche:

    Got proof to back up your racism claim?

    No one accused Donald Trump of being a racist until he decided to run for president and became a threat to Hillary Clinton’s return to power.

    In 1986, Trump joined several other prominent Americans, such as Rosa Parks and Muhammad Ali, as recipients of an “Ellis Island Award.”

    One suspects if Trump was a racist, there’s no way he would have posed for a photo with those two.
    https://goo.gl/images/DmEMzR

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    Jan 11th 2018, 3:46 PM

    Trump is trying to manipulate the direction of the investigation and send a not too coded message to Mueller that a trump will not be a pushover for the holding of an interview.

    Translation

    “You better have a damn good reason for interviewing me and a very solid basis for putting any questions at all to me or I’m coming after you.”

    Trump is vengeful.

    There was Russian interference in the Presidential election but, unless anyone admits that it was so, it will nit be possible to establish that Trump was knowingly complicit.

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