So, with all that in mind, where does that leave my thinking tonight?
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It's hard to imagine a world in which Sessions didn't want to go to whatever extent he could to reverse the guidance, not just withdraw it.
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When you add in the DeVos reports, & then see where things ended up, the situation reads to me like DeVos actually moved things quite a bit.
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None of that is too say that LGBT advocates and students and allies shouldn't take actions regarding the withdrawing of the guidance ...
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... but the reality of what's happening on the ground here matters. Especially early in an administration where there is lots of chaos.
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On the legal side, technically speaking, the only thing that changed is the federal government isn't taking sides any longer on the issue.
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That matters — the Obama admin had backed Gavin Grimm at the Fourth Circuit — but it isn't the law itself.
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The guidance — due to a district court injunction — already was on hold in most places and ways, too, so that's not changed.
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What about GG? That ~is~ a good question, and I think people of good will, as they say, will reach different conclusions about that.
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In one sense, the case can still be decided, on the underlying question of whether Title IX's sex discrim ban bars anti-trans discrim.
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goes back to q of why they took it in the first place and took up statutory q... seems like they might want to decide it?
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