Washington D.C., Feb 13, 2017 / 13:09 pm
President Donald Trump's administration will stop fighting in court to implement the Obama administration's transgender bathroom policy, leading to applause from a religious freedom legal group.
"This is good news for the privacy, safety, and dignity of young students across America," stated Gary McCaleb, senior counsel with the legal group Alliance Defending Freedom.
On Friday, the Trump administration announced that it was dropping the government's appeal on behalf of the Obama administration's transgender bathroom guidance. That guidance had directed schools to allow students to use the bathroom or locker room of the gender they currently identify with, not the facilities of their birth or biological sex.
In August, the Northern District of Texas federal court placed an injunction on the policy, halting it from going into effect.