美國11個州就跨性別者的學校,“如廁令”起訴聯邦政府
Eleven U.S. states are suing the Obama administration over guidelines covering which school bathrooms transgender students can use.
The federal guidelines recommend that public schools let students use the bathrooms of the gender with which they identify, instead of what is on their birth certificate.
The lawsuit by 11 states, led by Texas, accuses the Obama administration of conspiring to turn schools into "laboratories for a massive social experiment, flouting the democratic process and running roughshod over commonsense policies protecting children and basic privacy rights."
Neither the White House nor the Justice Department has commented on the lawsuit.
Critics of the administration's policy argue that it marks a significant change to settled law which should be left up to Congress, not the White House. The Justice Department has rejected that argument, saying that federal civil rights laws, which bar discrimination on the basis of sex, provide the legal foundation for the department's guidance.
The guidance is non-binding, but school systems could lose millions of dollars in federal aid if they fail to follow it.美國11個州對奧巴馬政府有關跨性別學生使用學校廁所的指導方針提出訴訟。
聯邦政府頒佈的指導方針建議，公立學校應允許學生根據自己認同的性別使用廁所，而不必按照他們出生證上的性別。
以德克薩斯爲首的11個州就此提出訴訟，指責奧巴馬政府意圖使學校成爲進行大規模社會試驗的實驗室，違反民主程序，以及踐踏保護兒童和基本隱私權的常識性政策。
白宮和美國司法部都還沒有對這一訴訟發表評論。
對奧巴馬政府這一政策持批評立場的人說，修改現行法律是國會的職權，不歸白宮管，奧巴馬政府的做法嚴重悖離了這一原則。司法部反駁說，聯邦公民權利法禁止性別歧視，這爲政府制定該指導方針提供了法律依據。
美國司法部的指導方針不具有約束力，但如果某個州的學校不遵守這一指導方針，該州就可能失去數百萬美元的聯邦教育補貼。
