Friday, 24 February 2017

President Donald Trump set to revoke transgender right to use any bathroom of their choice

Trump and Obama

US President Donald J. Trump appears to fully ready to implement most/all of his campaign promises during the last concluded US presidential election, irrespective of who such implementation affects or not in a bid to bring morality values and sanity back to the United States.

The latest of such is his resolve to revoke former president Obama’s guidelines which gave some kind of preferential treatment to transgender students to make use of any bathroom of their choice, which so many persons have said gave sexual predators a upper hand to cause more harms to innocent people.

The proposed document reveals that President Trump will reverse an initiative that poses threats to schools with the pulling out of federal funding if they force transgender students to use particular bathrooms against their will as was introduced by the Obama administration in May 2016.

Though during his campaign to become the Republican presidential nominee, Mr Trump stated that transgender people "should be able to use the bathroom that they feel is appropriate".

However, the President changed his position after coming under criticism from fellow Republicans.

On Tuesday, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Mr Trump's "view has been for a long time that this is not something the federal government should be involved in, this is a states' rights issue".


Statistics shows that some 150,000 American children (0.7%) aged between 13 and 17 identify as transgender, according to a study by The Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law.

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