White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer was asked today about reports that the Department of Justice and the Education Department planned to rescind President Obama's directive to schools protecting the rights of transgender students to use the bathroom in accordance with their gender identity.
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Spicer said it was a “states' rights issue” so, in a word, yes.
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