K-12 School Proposes Removing Urinals and Making Bathrooms Gender Neutral

May 26, 2016
Good morning from Capitol Hill, where Melissa Quinn watched a small business owner testify in a House hearing Wednesday about how the IRS had seized his own money. Leah Jessen talks to Texans about how they're fighting President Obama's bathroom directive and Kelsey Harkness has details on the lengths one Minnesota charter school is going to accommodate transgender students, angering some parents. Plus: Cully Stimson on Gitmo, Denise Shick on what it was like to have a dad who identified as transgender, and Salim Furth on Puerto Rico.
News K-12 School Proposes Removing Urinals and Making Bathrooms Gender Neutral The recommendations include a proposal to convert two bathrooms to gender neutral bathrooms by removing urinals and replacing them with toilets and floor to ceiling privacy stalls. Students of both sexes would then be able to utilize both facilities. Read More
News Maryland Farmer Who Had $41K Seized by IRS Continues to Fight for Money "I was realistically looking at losing what I had worked my life for and what my father had worked his life for," said Calvin Taylor. Read More
Commentary My Dad Was Transgender. Why I Still Think Gender Can't Be Changed. We're now in a world in which stating a very plain and evident biological fact is considered a form of hate speech. Read More
Analysis Congress' Puerto Rico Bill Is Not a 'Conservative Win' The bill falls well short of the pro-growth reforms necessary to deal with Puerto Rico's economic woes. Read More
Commentary Gitmo Detainees Coming to US? Not So Fast It's almost summer, so that means that the Senate and House of Representatives will take up—again—more legislation related to the terrorist detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. Read More
News Texas Sues Obama Administration Over Transgender Bathroom Directive Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton says that his state will wait to hear if there is a response from the Obama administration and "hopefully they'll back off." Read More
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