{"id":8453,"date":"2017-02-27T05:00:26","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T10:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smartsignblog.com\/blog\/?p=8453"},"modified":"2017-04-03T07:56:38","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T11:56:38","slug":"trump-administration-overturns-obamas-transgender-restroom-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smartsign.com/blog\/trump-administration-overturns-obamas-transgender-restroom-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration overturns Obama&#8217;s transgender restroom rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Effective February 22, the Trump administration has reversed the Obama administration\u2019s protections for transgender students in public schools. Under Obama\u2019s interpretation of the law known as Title IX, schools were required to permit transgender students to use sex-segregated facilities that corresponded to their gender identity, rather than their biological sex. This included school bathrooms and locker rooms.<\/p>\n<p>The guidance letter, released jointly by the Department of Justice and Department of Education, rescinds Obama\u2019s decision in its entirety. Because of the Trump administration\u2019s ruling, school districts can again require transgender students to use locker rooms or bathrooms corresponding to their biological sex. This ruling does not apply to locales that have their own protections for transgender students, like New York and California.<\/p>\n<p>There have since been protests outside of the White House after the announcement of the reversal. Civil rights groups worry that the new rule will lead to bullying and violence against transgender students. At SmartSign, we have been supporting the equal restroom access movement since 2014 and have donated our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartsign.com\/fod\/all-gender-restroom-signs\" target=\"_blank\">all-gender signs<\/a> to over 400 organizations across the country.<\/p>\n<p>If you feel that your organization may be eligible for discounted or donated all-gender signs, please email erica@smartsign.com.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8475\" style=\"width: 515px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8475\" class=\"wp-image-8475 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.smartsign.com/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/all-gender-collage.png\" width=\"505\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.smartsign.com/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/all-gender-collage.png 600w, https:\/\/www.smartsign.com/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/all-gender-collage-300x155.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 505px) 100vw, 505px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8475\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some of the many all-gender signs we&#8217;ve donated within the past year!<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Effective February 22, the Trump administration has reversed the Obama administration\u2019s protections for transgender students in public schools. Under Obama\u2019s interpretation of the law known as Title IX, schools were required to permit transgender students to use sex-segregated facilities that corresponded to their gender identity, rather than their biological sex. This included school bathrooms and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":8529,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[617,669,661,583,671,557,660,668,670],"class_list":["post-8453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-all-gender","tag-all-gender-signs","tag-all-gender-bathroom-signs","tag-gender-neutral","tag-obama","tag-transgender","tag-transgender-law","tag-transgender-rights","tag-trump"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Trump administration overturns Obama&#039;s transgender restroom rule | SmartSign Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smartsign.com/blog\/trump-administration-overturns-obamas-transgender-restroom-rule\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Trump administration overturns Obama&#039;s transgender restroom rule | SmartSign Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Effective February 22, the Trump administration has reversed the Obama administration\u2019s protections for transgender students in public schools. Under Obama\u2019s interpretation of the law known as Title IX, schools were required to permit transgender students to use sex-segregated facilities that corresponded to their gender identity, rather than their biological sex. This included school bathrooms and [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.smartsign.com/blog\/trump-administration-overturns-obamas-transgender-restroom-rule\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"SmartSign Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/SmartSign\/220245064667579\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-02-27T10:00:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2017-04-03T11:56:38+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/kpic43.p3cdn1.secureserver.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/all-gender-restroom-signage.png?time=1722276500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"300\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"223\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Erica Albanese\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@SmartSign\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@SmartSign\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.smartsign.com/blog\\\/trump-administration-overturns-obamas-transgender-restroom-rule\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.smartsign.com/blog\\\/trump-administration-overturns-obamas-transgender-restroom-rule\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Erica Albanese\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.smartsign.com/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/6f8dcee0630894e11a2e80995cc2cc8b\"},\"headline\":\"Trump administration overturns Obama&#8217;s transgender restroom rule\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-02-27T10:00:26+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-04-03T11:56:38+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.smartsign.com/blog\\\/trump-administration-overturns-obamas-transgender-restroom-rule\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":227,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.smartsign.com/blog\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.smartsign.com/blog\\\/trump-administration-overturns-obamas-transgender-restroom-rule\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.smartsign.com/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2017\\\/02\\\/all-gender-restroom-signage.png\",\"keywords\":[\"all gender\",\"all gender signs\",\"all-gender bathroom signs\",\"gender-neutral\",\"Obama\",\"transgender\",\"transgender law\",\"transgender rights\",\"Trump\"],\"articleSection\":[\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.smartsign.com/blog\\\/trump-administration-overturns-obamas-transgender-restroom-rule\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.smartsign.com/blog\\\/trump-administration-overturns-obamas-transgender-restroom-rule\\\/\",\"name\":\"Trump administration overturns Obama's transgender restroom rule | SmartSign Blog\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.smartsign.com/blog\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.smartsign.com/blog\\\/trump-administration-overturns-obamas-transgender-restroom-rule\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.smartsign.com/blog\\\/trump-administration-overturns-obamas-transgender-restroom-rule\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.smartsign.com/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2017\\\/02\\\/all-gender-restroom-signage.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-02-27T10:00:26+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-04-03T11:56:38+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.smartsign.com/blog\\\/trump-administration-overturns-obamas-transgender-restroom-rule\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.smartsign.com/blog\\\/trump-administration-overturns-obamas-transgender-restroom-rule\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.smartsign.com/blog\\\/trump-administration-overturns-obamas-transgender-restroom-rule\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.smartsign.com/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2017\\\/02\\\/all-gender-restroom-signage.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.smartsign.com/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2017\\\/02\\\/all-gender-restroom-signage.png\",\"width\":300,\"height\":223},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.smartsign.com/blog\\\/trump-administration-overturns-obamas-transgender-restroom-rule\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.smartsign.com/blog\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Trump administration overturns Obama&#8217;s transgender restroom rule\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.smartsign.com/blog\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.smartsign.com/blog\\\/\",\"name\":\"SmartSign Blog\",\"description\":\"Articles and resources on safety, security, and signs\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.smartsign.com/blog\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.smartsign.com/blog\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.smartsign.com/blog\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"SmartSign\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.smartsign.com/blog\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.smartsign.com/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/kpic43.p3cdn1.secureserver.net\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/05\\\/smartsign-logo.png?time=1722276500\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/kpic43.p3cdn1.secureserver.net\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/05\\\/smartsign-logo.png?time=1722276500\",\"width\":188,\"height\":55,\"caption\":\"SmartSign\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.smartsign.com/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/pages\\\/SmartSign\\\/220245064667579\",\"https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/SmartSign\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.smartsign.com/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/6f8dcee0630894e11a2e80995cc2cc8b\",\"name\":\"Erica Albanese\",\"description\":\"Erica Albanese is a Marketing Associate at SmartSign.\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Trump administration overturns Obama's transgender restroom rule | SmartSign Blog","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.smartsign.com/blog\/trump-administration-overturns-obamas-transgender-restroom-rule\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Trump administration overturns Obama's transgender restroom rule | SmartSign Blog","og_description":"Effective February 22, the Trump administration has reversed the Obama administration\u2019s protections for transgender students in public schools. Under Obama\u2019s interpretation of the law known as Title IX, schools were required to permit transgender students to use sex-segregated facilities that corresponded to their gender identity, rather than their biological sex. This included school bathrooms and [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.smartsign.com/blog\/trump-administration-overturns-obamas-transgender-restroom-rule\/","og_site_name":"SmartSign Blog","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/SmartSign\/220245064667579","article_published_time":"2017-02-27T10:00:26+00:00","article_modified_time":"2017-04-03T11:56:38+00:00","og_image":[{"width":300,"height":223,"url":"https:\/\/kpic43.p3cdn1.secureserver.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/all-gender-restroom-signage.png?time=1722276500","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"Erica Albanese","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@SmartSign","twitter_site":"@SmartSign","twitter_misc":{"Written by":false,"Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.smartsign.com/blog\/trump-administration-overturns-obamas-transgender-restroom-rule\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.smartsign.com/blog\/trump-administration-overturns-obamas-transgender-restroom-rule\/"},"author":{"name":"Erica Albanese","@id":"https:\/\/www.smartsign.com/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/6f8dcee0630894e11a2e80995cc2cc8b"},"headline":"Trump administration overturns Obama&#8217;s transgender restroom rule","datePublished":"2017-02-27T10:00:26+00:00","dateModified":"2017-04-03T11:56:38+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.smartsign.com/blog\/trump-administration-overturns-obamas-transgender-restroom-rule\/"},"wordCount":227,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.smartsign.com/blog\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.smartsign.com/blog\/trump-administration-overturns-obamas-transgender-restroom-rule\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.smartsign.com/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/all-gender-restroom-signage.png","keywords":["all gender","all gender signs","all-gender bathroom signs","gender-neutral","Obama","transgender","transgender law","transgender rights","Trump"],"articleSection":["News"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.smartsign.com/blog\/trump-administration-overturns-obamas-transgender-restroom-rule\/","url":"https:\/\/www.smartsign.com/blog\/trump-administration-overturns-obamas-transgender-restroom-rule\/","name":"Trump administration overturns Obama's transgender restroom rule | SmartSign Blog","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.smartsign.com/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.smartsign.com/blog\/trump-administration-overturns-obamas-transgender-restroom-rule\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.smartsign.com/blog\/trump-administration-overturns-obamas-transgender-restroom-rule\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.smartsign.com/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/all-gender-restroom-signage.png","datePublished":"2017-02-27T10:00:26+00:00","dateModified":"2017-04-03T11:56:38+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.smartsign.com/blog\/trump-administration-overturns-obamas-transgender-restroom-rule\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.smartsign.com/blog\/trump-administration-overturns-obamas-transgender-restroom-rule\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.smartsign.com/blog\/trump-administration-overturns-obamas-transgender-restroom-rule\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.smartsign.com/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/all-gender-restroom-signage.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.smartsign.com/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/all-gender-restroom-signage.png","width":300,"height":223},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.smartsign.com/blog\/trump-administration-overturns-obamas-transgender-restroom-rule\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.smartsign.com/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Trump administration overturns Obama&#8217;s transgender restroom rule"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.smartsign.com/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.smartsign.com/blog\/","name":"SmartSign Blog","description":"Articles and resources on safety, security, and signs","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.smartsign.com/blog\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.smartsign.com/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.smartsign.com/blog\/#organization","name":"SmartSign","url":"https:\/\/www.smartsign.com/blog\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.smartsign.com/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/kpic43.p3cdn1.secureserver.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/smartsign-logo.png?time=1722276500","contentUrl":"https:\/\/kpic43.p3cdn1.secureserver.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/smartsign-logo.png?time=1722276500","width":188,"height":55,"caption":"SmartSign"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.smartsign.com/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/SmartSign\/220245064667579","https:\/\/x.com\/SmartSign"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.smartsign.com/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/6f8dcee0630894e11a2e80995cc2cc8b","name":"Erica Albanese","description":"Erica Albanese is a Marketing Associate at SmartSign."}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartsign.com/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartsign.com/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartsign.com/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartsign.com/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartsign.com/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartsign.com/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartsign.com/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartsign.com/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartsign.com/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartsign.com/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}