CNN: Trump Rescinds Protections for Transgender Students

‘It helps to unite conservatives, even social conservatives at a time with lower approval ratings’

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GREGORY: "It’s curious about the motivation because President Trump as a candidate seemed less concerned about wading into the culture wars and he's made a shift. He's got an attorney general who is interested in waging the culture wars and who has been less willing to advance gay and transgender rights. And so this is a matter that is coursing through the courts, it might get to the Supreme Court. There’s been some disagreement and there has been a judge who had blocked where we were. Who had blocked that guidance that the Obama administration had given. What's striking to me is that the president is willing to wade into this area of denying students rights at a time when gay rights have come so far so fast in this country and really it’s been bipartisan too, also striking to me that as with the Supreme Court justice pick. He is perfectly happy to spark a huge ideological battle."

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