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        11 States Sue US Over Transgender Bathroom Guidelines in Schools

   by VOA News

   Eleven U.S. states are suing the Obama administration over guidelines
   covering which school bathrooms transgender students can use.

   The federal guidelines recommend that public schools let students use
   the bathrooms of the gender with which they identify, instead of what
   is on their birth certificate.

   The lawsuit by 11 states, led by Texas, accuses the Obama
   administration of conspiring to turn schools into "laboratories for a
   massive social experiment, flouting the democratic process and running
   roughshod over commonsense policies protecting children and basic
   privacy rights."

   Neither the White House nor the Justice Department has commented on the
   lawsuit.

   When announcing the guidelines earlier this month, Attorney General
   Loretta Lynch said, "there is no room in our schools for
   discrimination."

   The guidelines are non-binding, but school systems could lose millions
   of dollars in federal aid if they fail to follow them.
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