Yesterday, Wednesday, February 22, was a new day to forget in recent United States history. Your new president, Donald Trump, canceled via executive order a norm previously approved by his predecessor, Barack Obama, and according to which the country's public schools must allow transsexual students to access the bathrooms and changing rooms of their choice depending on the gender with which they feel identified.
Once again, Donald's decisions Trump has raised a wave of criticism, indignation and controversy, to which Apple has joined quickly because this very night it has demonstrated against this decisionn, while opting for "an environment free of stigma and discrimination" for «Transgender students should be treated as equals«.
Donald Trump removes protection for transgender students
Donald Trump has returned to do his thing and, confirming this fashion that he likes to govern so much by decree, yesterday he withdrew the protection that transgender students enjoyed in the country's public schools. Hereinafter, these students will no longer be able to access the bathrooms and changing rooms of the gender with which they identify, something for which until now they enjoyed legal protection thanks to a previous order promulgated by Barack Obama.
Jeff Sessions, US Attorney General, has been in charge of announcing this decision to suspend the rule through a statement. According to said statement, the fact that transgender students enjoyed this legal protection was causing too much confusion locally. The new decision has also resorted to the form factor arguing that the previous Obama decision did not include "a sufficient legal analysis" about the degree of coherence with the powers that the Constitution confers on the Executive branch. Additionally, Sessions added that now both Congress and state parliaments and local governments "are in a position to adopt appropriate policies or laws that address this issue."
Trump makes his Republican governors happy
The states governed by Republicans argued that Obama exceeded his power when in May of last year he promulgated a rule that, although it did not have the character of law, did include the withdrawal of federal funds to those educational centers that did not allow Transgender students use the restrooms and changing rooms of the gender with which they identify.
Now Trump is pleased with his co-religionists, the Republican governors, among whose ranks, without a doubt, he also needs support. But the critics have not been long in coming and Apple has been one of the first companies to demonstrate against Donald Trump's new decision.
Apple says NO to withdrawing protection for transgender students
Following your strong opposition to the anti-immigration order, Apple has expressed its opposition tonightn Donald Trump's recent decision to override protection for transgender students in the nation's public schools.
In a declaration to Axios, Apple has stated that all people must be able to thrive in an environment free from discrimination and stigma and that from this premise, transgender students should be treated as equalsyes, so you do not agree with any decision that limits your rights or your protectionn.
Apple believes that everyone deserves the opportunity to thrive in an environment free from stigma and discrimination.
We support efforts toward greater acceptance, not less, and we strongly believe that transgender students should be treated as equals. We do not agree to any effort to limit or terminate your rights and protections.
Trump, however, says that states and public schools should have the authority to make their own decisions on matters like this.
Apple CEO Tim Cook has yet to comment about the last decision made by Trump, but already in the past he has proven to be a strong defender of LGBT rights, and above all of the equal rights of people.
