Obama's feminist/LGBT/PC offensive

Is this why Trump has promised to abolish the Department of Education?

Any law criminalizing discrimination is an invitation to endless improvisation by bureaucrats and courts, and that's why the Social Justice Warriors want them.

And the ERA, too.

Conservatives are freaking out at the cultural left takeover of education, driven from below by SJW students and from above by federal and even state bureaucracies, with faculty collaborators everywhere.

It's hard to figure the Democrats' position on the sexual absurdities of the radical gender fakers.

There really can't be that many votes in all this.

College Kangaroo Courts Are Unconstitutional Disgraces

George Will

And how is this change really within the scope of presidential authority?

Or indeed of any federal authority?

New Transgender Rules for Schools Are about Obama’s Culture War

Frederick M. Hess

Obama’s Dictatorial Transgender Proclamation

Mario Loyola

From 1970s-Era Academic ‘High Theory’ to Transgender Bathrooms on Campus

Heather Mac Donald

The Transgender Straw Broke the Camel’s Back: It’s Time to Declare Independence from Public Schools

David French

The Department of Justice and the Department of Education have declared that they now “interpret” federal law to not only support the fantastical notion that boys can become girls but also to impose new legal requirements that impact every aspect of school life. 

The administration’s letter sweeps far beyond bathrooms — imposing a new speech code on school employees and even students, opening girls’ showers to boys, requiring schools to allow boys to sleep in girls’ rooms on overnight field trips, requiring boys to room with girls even in single-sex dorms, and putting boys on girls’ sports teams.

Moreover, schools are prohibited from making any inquiry to ensure that the boys using girls’ facilities are, in fact, transgender. 

They can’t ask for medical documentation. 

They can’t ask for treatment information. 

They can’t ask for identification. 

They have to take the boy at his word. 

And yet the administration’s letter isn’t significant just for what it says — it’s significant for what it means. 

The federal government can and will use extralegal means to override local control, the rule of law, and even the Constitution itself when social justice demands it.

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The progressive thumb is always on the scales, often nudging and sometimes shoving instruction in a comprehensively leftward direction: Islam is wonderful and peaceful. 

American history is a story of unrelenting repression and intolerance. 

Academic standards and in-school discipline matter less than social and racial justice. 

Orthodox Christians are bigots.

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States should consider rejecting federal education funding entirely (Texas is considering doing just that). 

At the very least, charter schools should be completely disentangled — and not just from public employees’ unions but also from federal funds (in order to insulate them from federal influence); voucher systems should be dramatically expanded — giving every family the option to spend their share of tax dollars at the school of their choice; and private institutions and philanthropists should step up to provide needed funding.