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The U.S. departments of Justice and Education recently , lifting federal enforcement of a policy that required schools to:

• Allow transgender students to use restrooms and locker rooms that correspond with their gender identity, even if it differs from their biological sex;
• Use students’ preferred pronouns and names on school forms;
• Keep students’ transgender status private unless they wish to disclose it; and
• Honor a student’s gender identity in assigning them to sex-segregated classes and activities.

I recently discussed the issue on the Education Writers Association’s EWA Radio podcast. Check out the episode below.

For more on the issue, check out these related °ÄÃÅÅܹ·ÂÛ̳ stories or explore our video gallery on the transgender student experience.

• Attention Turns to Courts in Battle Over Transgender-Student Rights