ST. LOUIS (KMOX) – Attorney General Chris Koster is getting involved in the national transgender school restroom debate. Koster says his office intends to disagree with President Obama’s request to permit transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with their gender identity.
Koster is planning to file a friend of the court brief, asking the US Supreme Court to review the decision of a federal appeals court on the issue.
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In the case of “G.G. vs. Gloucester County School Board” a transgender high school student argued, school policy requiring students to use the restroom corresponding to their biological sex assigned at birth is unconstitutional.
A US Appeals Court recently sided with the student, ruling that Title 9 requires public schools to permit transgender students to use facilities corresponding to their gender identity.
A survey last month by CBS News and the New York Times polled 1,300 Americans nationwide, and found the nation is divided nearly 50-50 over the issue of transgender people and public bathrooms. In the Midwest, 38 percent of those polled thought people should be able to use the bathroom of the gender they identify as.
Koster says his office intends to stick up for Missouri’s principle of siding with local decision-making over federal mandates.
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