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  1. March 03, 2017

    States Drop Suit Over Obama Trans Guidance After Trump 180

    Thirteen U.S. states dropped their suit in Texas federal court over a May Obama administration memo directing schools and employers to allow transgender students and workers to use bathrooms that correspond with their gender identity on Friday, about a week after the U.S. Departments of Labor and Justice rolled back the challenged guidance.

  2. November 21, 2016

    Feds Lose Bid To Block Bathroom Injunction

    A federal judge in Texas on Sunday denied a bid from the federal government to narrow the scope of his ruling that halts nationwide federal guidance that students be allowed to use the restroom that matches their gender identity, writing that they wouldn't be harmed if the temporary stop goes into effect.

  3. October 25, 2016

    Texas Fights Fed Challenge Of Obama Bathroom Injunction

    Texas and the coalition of states fighting federal guidance that students be allowed to use the restroom that matches their gender identity told a federal judge Monday that the court's block of the directive must stand to protect "privacy, safety and dignity."

  4. October 20, 2016

    Feds Appeal Block Of Obama's Transgender School Rule

    The federal government said Thursday it will lodge an appeal of a Texas federal judge's decision to temporarily block the Obama administration's guidance that public schoolchildren should be allowed to use the bathroom matching their gender identity at the Fifth Circuit, two days after the judge reaffirmed his August decision.

  5. October 19, 2016

    Judge Affirms Block Of Obama's Gender Identity Guidance

    A Texas federal judge late Tuesday reaffirmed a nationwide injunction issued in August barring the federal guidance that public schoolchildren be allowed to use the bathroom matching their gender identity from taking effect, saying the block wasn't too sweeping.

  6. September 26, 2016

    Feds Again Seek Clarity On Gender Guidelines Injunction

    The U.S. government on Friday again defended its request that a federal judge offer clarification on his block of federal guidance that public schoolchildren be allowed to use the bathroom matching their gender identity, arguing that states challenging the directive, led by Texas, are trying to apply the ruling too broadly.

  7. September 20, 2016

    States Say Gender Identity Guidelines Injunction Is Clear

    A coalition of states challenging federal guidance that transgender public school students be allowed to use the bathroom matching their gender identity told a Texas federal judge Monday that its block of the directive is perfectly clear and that a request from the U.S. Department of Justice for clarification should be rejected.

  8. September 15, 2016

    DOJ Says States Don't Understand Gender Identity Ruling

    The U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday told a Texas federal court that the 13 states challenging federal guidance that transgender public school students must be allowed to use the bathroom matching their gender identity have misunderstood how a block on the ruling should apply.

  9. September 12, 2016

    Feds Seek To Clarify Scope Of Transgender Bathroom Ruling

    The federal government asked a Texas federal judge on Monday to clarify the scope of a ruling that blocked the Obama administration from enforcing new transgender bathroom rules, including whether the ban should apply nationwide.

  10. August 22, 2016

    Obama's Gender Identity Guidelines Blocked By Texas Judge

    A Texas federal judge on Sunday said the federal government violated the Administrative Procedure Act when issuing guidance that the meaning of "sex" under Title IX includes gender identity, without public comment and in opposition to its existing definition of the term, and blocked enforcement of the directive nationwide.

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