Newly elected US president, Joe Biden, has vowed to restore bathroom protections for the country’s trans community, which were enforced under Obama’s presidency but later scrapped by Donald Trump.
According to Fox News, Biden plans to reinstate Obama-era regulations which protect trans students in public schools, and allow trans teens to use public bathrooms, locker rooms and other school facilities which align with their gender identity.The Trump administration reversed Obama’s regulations, arguing they clashed with laws regarding sex discrimination, thus leaving trans students unprotected as state’s proceeded to make their own laws regarding trans access to single-sex spaces.