(Nikki Kahn/The Washington Post)Attorneys for a transgender teen who sued his school board for barring him from the boys’ bathroom said Thursday that they plan to continue to press his case before the U.S. Supreme Court, despite the Trump administration’s decision to withdraw guidance on transgender students that had buoyed his lawsuit. We support efforts toward greater acceptance, not less, and we strongly believe that transgender students should be treated as equals,” the company said in a statement. “We remain committed to ensuring that transgender students and families are treated with fairness and dignity,” Healey said. Fifteen states have explicit protections for transgender students, according to the Human Rights Campaign, a gay rights group; lawmakers in several other states are working to restrict bathroom access for transgender students. Sessions is widely known to oppose expanding gay and transgender rights, and DeVos’s friends say she personally supports those rights.

Source: Washington Post February 23, 2017 17:52 UTC