The chairmen of two US bishops' committees have praised President Donald Trump's repeal of the Obama administration's directive on transgender access to bathrooms.
The guidance, issued last May by the US Department of Justice and the US Department of Education, "indicated that public pre-K through 12 schools, as well as all colleges and universities, should treat 'a student's gender identity as the student's sex,'" said the bishops' joint statement.
The document "sought to impose a one-size-fits-all approach to dealing with sensitive issues involving individual students," said Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia, chairman of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth, and Bishop George Murry of Youngstown, Ohio, chairman of the USCCB Committee on Catholic Education.
