(Claritza Jimenez/The Washington Post)Well-intended as they might have been, President Barack Obama’s protections for transgender students were on shaky ground from the get-go. The LGBT community and allies cheered the new guidance, saying it was necessary to make transgender students feel safe and welcome. The nation’s largest teachers union backed the directive, saying transgender students had the right to safely express their gender identity in school. Many transgender students and their allies said the measure made them feel validated, and assured them that they had an ally in the federal government. “It certainly bolstered the hope,” Grimm told The Post Wednesday, “that the future for transgender students was looking up in a way that it hadn’t been previously.”

Source: Washington Post February 23, 2017 11:15 UTC