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  1. February 13, 2017

    US Pulls Challenge Of Trans Bathroom Injunction Scope

    The federal government on Friday pulled its request for the Fifth Circuit to narrow the scope of a nationwide injunction blocking Obama administration guidance that allows students to use the restroom that matches their gender identity, a move advocacy groups said signals a change in the federal government’s approach toward LGBTQ rights.

  2. February 10, 2017

    5th Circ. Dismisses Trans Prof's Bathroom Rule Appeal

    The Fifth Circuit on Thursday dismissed a transgender professor's appeal of a Texas federal judge's nationwide block on an Obama administration directive allowing students to use restrooms that match their gender identity, finding that she isn't a party to the case and thus isn't allowed to appeal.

  3. February 06, 2017

    Trans Prof Slams Bid To Toss Her From Bathroom Rule Row

    A transgender professor on Monday defended her right to join a Fifth Circuit appeal in which Texas, Oklahoma and other states are challenging an Obama administration guidance allowing students to use the restrooms that match their gender identity, saying she has a "unique entanglement" in the matter.

  4. January 31, 2017

    Trans Prof Can't Enter Obama Bathroom Rule Row, States Say

    Texas, Oklahoma and other states challenging an Obama administration guidance that students be allowed to use restrooms matching their gender identity asked the Fifth Circuit on Monday to disallow participation in the case by a transgender college professor involved in a separate discrimination suit against Oklahoma.

  5. January 11, 2017

    Bathroom Rule Ban Is Toothless In Okla., LGBT Group Says

    An Oklahoma LGBT advocacy group told the Fifth Circuit on Tuesday that the state should be exempted from an injunction blocking an Obama administration guidance that students be allowed to use restrooms that match their gender identity, saying the directive conflicted with no Oklahoma law.

  6. January 09, 2017

    5th Circ. Asked To End Block Of Transgender Bathroom Rule

    The U.S. government on Friday asked the Fifth Circuit to overturn an injunction blocking an Obama administration rule incorporating gender identity discrimination as part of sex discrimination under Title IX, calling the injunction overbroad and unnecessary.