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Districts adopt bathroom policies

In Central Idaho’s Blaine County School District, administrators have addressed the needs of transgender students with little trouble. District officials sit down with students and their parents to discuss options. The school buildings have private, unisex bathrooms, and the district makes these rooms available to transgender students. This arrangement has worked so far, assistant superintendent John Blackman said. “I would say the adults are more reactionary to this than the students,” he said. The White House’s transgender student guidelines have triggered a pointed political reaction. The state of Texas announced plans Wednesday to sue the administration. Idaho hasn’t signed on yet, but Gov. Butch Otter plans to file a legal brief supporting the Texas lawsuit/Kevin Richert, Idaho Education News. More here.



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D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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