Nation Split over Trans Inclusive Bathrooms

The country is split over the trans community should be allowed to using public restrooms under their assigned gender.

According to the CBS News/New York Times poll, 46% believe transgender people should be required to use the bathroom corresponding with their birth gender. However 41% thinks they should use the restroom with the gender they identify.

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The results are largely split along lines of party, ideology, region, and gender.
While 65 percent of Republicans said transgender people should use the bathroom of their gender at birth, 60 percent of Democrats said the opposite. And 49 percent of independents said transgender people should use the bathrooms corresponding with their birth identity, compared to 38 percent who said they should go to the facility with the gender with which they currently identify.

TIME covers Battle of the Bathroom

Coming out this Friday is an amazing piece on the bathroom battle from TIME.

Washington Bureau Chief Michael Scherer gets into the heart of this battle and why the Obama administration took action

From their press release

Scherer writes: “In a divided country, the social battle lines have been drawn once again in our most private of public places. State legislatures have been besieged, and school committees have split. Pastors have become politicized in the pulpit, and the gay-rights lobby has abandoned its past hesitancy to embrace the transgender cause. Courtrooms are filling with legal motions that are certain to end up at the Supreme Court. The fight—­political and legal, personal and ­collective—is just getting going…. Like all great political battles, this one is distinguished by the decision on both sides to commit loudly and completely, to elevate the issue and to force it on the American public…. The 2016 battle over bathrooms is, after all, about far more than public ­facilities—it’s about gender roles, social change, federalism, physical danger, political polarization and, most strikingly, a breakdown in the ability of anyone in this country to speak across our divides, or appeal to common humanity.”

Please check it out, it's going to something that you have to read again.

73 House Republicans are Demanding Answers on Bathroom Directive

So, some members of the GOP thought it would be cute to send our president a letter about the bathroom directive.

You see, when you've lost other battles involving LGBTQ matters, I guess you keep the ball rolling. Anywho, the author of the letter comes from Rep. Mark Walker.

It's addressed to Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Education Secretary John King, and they demand to know why they're making everybody feel unsafe and discomfortable. Here's some of the demands from the letter:

• List all actions that the ED and DOJ, jointly or separately, will take against or regarding a school, school district, or state in which a teacher, school administrator, educator,school contractor, or person volunteering at a school does not comply with this guidance;
• Detail all actions that a school, teacher, school contractor, and person volunteering must take to be in compliance with this guidance;
• Confirm whether ED and DOJ consider this guidance to be legally binding and whether ED and DOJ will report this guidance to Congress;
• Delineate the statutory authority under which ED and DOJ issued this guidance;
• Explain why schools must disregard the privacy, “discomfort,” and emotional strain imposed on other students during use of bathroom, showering, and changing facilities and overnight accommodations as these schools comply with this guidance; and
• Explain to what extent teachers, guidance counselors, school administrators, and parents and guardians of students were consulted regarding the implementation and effect of this
• guidance.

They want a reply by May 30, 2016.