President Trump has dealt the transgender a blow by having his Department of Justice drop it’s Obama-era fight against a national injunction that stopped the feds from telling schools how to to deal with transgender guidelines.
But there’s a catch.
The Justice Department on Friday signaled it stopped fighting to overturn a national injunction blocking the federal government from giving guidance to schools and transgender students, another sign President Donald Trump’s administration is taking a different approach than former President Barack Obama’s.
A hearing was set for next Tuesday in the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in which the Justice Department was fighting Texas and 11 other states, which had filed a lawsuit to prevent the Education Department from being able to give that guidance to transgender students that they are allowed to use restrooms that match their gender identity.
But on Friday night the Justice Department and the states filed a joint notice saying both sides moved to cancel the hearing. “The parties are currently considering how to best proceed in this appeal,” the motion said.
You see that last part? It means this fight isn’t over and they’re going to figure out what to do next. This is a really important issue because Trump talked big on social issues and respecting the freedom of religion from the gay lobby, but he also seemed not to care much about the issue before running for president. We’ll watching carefully to see what his next steps are here…