How Scrapping Transgender Bathroom Guidelines Impacts Schools

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Channel: Education Week · 2017 · News & Politics

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Federal guidelines advising schools to let transgender kids use the bathroom that corresponds to their gender identity are being withdrawn by the Departments of Justice and Education.  Education Week reporter Evie Blad discusses the issue in this PBS NewsHour segment. 

This video originally aired on PBS NewsHour on February 22, 2017. ____________________

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