Administrations guidance to Public Schools over allowing transgender students access to bathrooms and other facilities. Democrats, 202 7488000. Republicans, 202 7488001. 202 7488002s,. You can post on our facebook or twitter pages as well. This guidance came out last friday. It was a joint letter by the Education Department and Justice Department. It says that as a condition of receiving federal funds a school agrees they will not exclude separate deny benefits to or otherwise treated differently on the basis of sex any person in its Educational Programs unless expressly authorized to do so under title ix. The letter also gave specific guidance when it came to the use of restrooms and locker rooms. Heres some of that section from the letter which you can find online at the Justice Department and education to urban. A school must allow transgender students access to facilities consistent with their gender. Themchool may not require to use bathrooms inconsistent with their gender. A school may make individual user options available to all students. Some of the guidance they came out last week from the Justice Department. We want to get your thoughts on this issue again, the numbers. 202 7488000 for democrats. 202 7488001 for republicans. 202 7488002 for independents. You can post on facebook as well. Poll taking a look at this issue asks about the issue of transgender students. Say, would you favor or oppose laws that require transgender individuals to require facilities that correspond to their assigned sex at birth rather than their actual gender . 25 percent of those respondents say they strongly favor that. Strongly oppose, 39 . Somewhat favor 13 . Somewhat oppose 18 . We will start with sandra. She joins us from virginia on the republican line. Im calling on the democrat line. Anyway. I definitely unalterably opposed any trying to make people go into a bathroom that is different from what they look like right now. Ofwhoop de doo about nothing here. If there is a concern completed by having the bathrooms in use all over the world. I have seen them and used them and did not feel unsafe. Lock they go in and door and use the bathroom and you are the only one in the time so theres no chance of anybody believebody else me, waynesboro is not a liberal town. If there were some kind of thing like this going on here i would have heard about it. I think its a lot of maelstrom in a teacup. Host has your School District reacted at all . Your reaction would be the same . My reaction would be to straighten up and fly right if they started making a problem where there is not one. There has not been any reaction that i know of. Host lets hear from the republican line in fredericksburg, virginia. If my daughter was in a gym class and an individual who had made it does vision or it wasjust the way it was that of a different gender was passing through regardless of how anyone would think it would be if she was a woman and that , it would or whatever be hard for her and that would be something that i would immediately say no couldnt take that to it seems shocking all of these things are taking place kerry isnt it interesting that now it has come to light does bring a lot of thoughts to all of us about all of it that are reasonable fonts. Everybody seems to have something thats important to say. Regardless of all that is said, if it were my daughter i would and if my daughter was going into a restroom i would also go in with her and stand at the door. Thats what fathers do. Are you speaking from a hypothetical or do you have a daughter in Public School . Have had a daughter in Public School. Now she is out. What i really think is that the are alle what we concerned about. Once we arrive at a station where we have critical thought process than we can kind of take care of ourselves. But isnt it really something we are all concerned about the youth and being that there is somebody there to watch and make sure that their arrival in this situation is going to be what we are able to honestly with a night when we are trying to go to sleep. This is a very disturbing situation but it has to be addressed. Everybody seems to have something that is worthy to say and i think that everybody that says something is worthy to listen to. Host lets hear from a estelle in memphis. Caller i am very concerned about this. What i really dont get is why all of a sudden actually i do get it. Its a spiritual thing. We as parents, as teachers, as adults thinking about children governing themselves in a sexual nature. Rich teach children. Thats how they learn. We teach children. Thats how they learn. If we are going to allow children to go where they feel they need to go, i think we need to talk to them. This is the whole premise behind what is going on. We are treating children as if they are already adults. If we are going to allow children to go to what bathroom they feel like they need to do and they have not attained the age at which they can determine things for themselves, why not let murderers murder . Not let children get a drivers license because they feel like they can drive . Its becoming more and more prevalent in the media and thats what causes me to think, why now . Why all of a sudden . Dont like that people want to say what women can do and cannot do in restrooms. Where is it coming from politically and to is benefiting from it . Think that when we get down to those areas we will find that there is some sort of process taking place that we are not aware of. It doesnt matter what other people do in other countries. We are americans and we live in america. We built this on the foundation and could spiritually. Were just not pleasing god right now. I think we should stand up. Im very upset that my government cant impose upon me things that are happening thats beyond my control. What about the people who are just living our regular lives and want to continue to do so . Why are our concerns not being heard . Host that was the independent line. Independents, 202 7488002. Republicans, 202 7488001. Democrats, 202 7488000. Another independent calling from west virginia. Caller i would like to comment on the fact that a lot of these people that keep calling in and saying if my daughter or if my son. As far as i know there has never been a documented case of any of this happening. This is kind of like the smokescreen that has been thrown up about changing Voting Rights and all that. Theres like a. 03 chance of that happening. Its just a smokescreen to distract people from whats really going on around here. I have been reading articles about what is really in the North Carolina law that people are ignoring and is much more onerous than what they are proposing about the bathrooms. Host so you say this is not a big issue . Caller its a nonissue. It wasnt an issue when they brought it up. There has never been a documented case of anything like this happening. People just want to go to the bathroom. Perverts are going to do you think a sign on a door is going to keep someone from walking in . Host thats bob in morgantown, west virginia. One of the reactions they came shortly after this announcement from the Obama Administration. Dan patrick responded to the and he thought about what might happen because of the administrations guidance. He kind of projected what could happen in his state. Here are some of his thoughts from last week. Kids have issues when they come to school and schools have a tough job accommodating them. This is taking one child with an issue and saying everyone else thewhatever reason superintendent and now the president have it makes no sense. Its going to undermine Public School. This will be the end of public education. People will pull their kids out. Homeschooling will explode. Private schools will increase. School choice will pass. Host lets hear from catherine in massachusetts on the democrat line. Caller good morning. You know this is the most disgraceful thing in the world. When you come in this world you are either male or female. You should admit no freaks. Turn himselfnot into no woman and a woman aint got no business trying to be a man. Its a shame. To heaven. Has risen americas sins have reached into heaven. You all say you dont know what hes doing. I got three grandchildren and i dont want my granddaughters going into no bathroom with some rest of man trying to be a woman. Its how you think makes you a woman. And these ministers and these its called this morning in springfield. Im 85 years old and i have never seen weather like this. Something big is going down and america is hiding something from the people. They have done everything they can do to bring this one world order. Host ok. Lets hear from deborah on the independent line. Caller its good to talk with you again. Welcome cspan. I love cspan. You asked a question earlier. Am i seeing a response from this event. We were talking about it in church. Everyone is talking about it my church. The target who is made mentioned that they were going to open up the bathrooms. These parents are not going to go to target anymore because they dont want these kids in their bathrooms. Its an overreach to say that this is some kind of sex discrimination. People choose to be transgender. Host the Lieutenant Governor was talking about the possibility of people pulling their kids out of school. Caller yes sir. I sure do. Iis is my pastors kids who was speaking about. I asked him specifically what do you think about this . Thats how i found out about target from them. The kids themselves. I think its going to have a real effect. I dont think the president has any right at all to tell us what we should do. Thats deborah in georgia. Here is bernard from new york on the republican line. Caller good morning, cspan. Have two quick topics i want to make a comment on this gender issue, the bathroom issue. I also want to make a comment about susan swan. Host are you still there . Make your comment about the bathroom issue. Caller number one, this top doctor at Johns Hopkins , top psychiatrists said this whole idea of changing genders is a mental issue and that people who support it are actually enabling people who are sick. Number two, any scientist will tell you its impossible to jenner a mailce into a female. He remains a male disguised as a female. The second point about this is that obama has no right this toer to not send the congress, not have any conversation about it. The third thing very important. Yesterday you guys had a conversation about facebook answering out conservatives. Im survey that was calling for 25 years into cspan. I was censored out. You have my phone number. I went against al sharpton. I said he was a cheap race hustler. People called in from some leftwing outfit and told susan susan swan that brian then what is a racist. She bandmate. Band me. Im thinking about bringing a lawsuit. I would like to hear from cspan. You have my phone number. We can settle this amiably. Not settle it on the air. Our policy is to have free access for people to call in. And talkinging now about issues on this network so clearly you have access to the network so we will leave it at that. Lets hear from amy on the democrats line. Caller hi there. Thanks for the opportunity to speak. It seems like a lot of folks are calling in to if i had to guess i would say that they probably have never met a transgender person. Onseems like theyre sending their ideas about what being transgender is and what one or anddoctors might have said personal opinions and not actually having talked and spoken with somebody who has lived the everyday life of being a transgender individuals. It is not as cut and dry as people think it is. People think you wake up one morning and decide to be the opposite gender. It doesnt work like that. You are who you are inside and sometimes the person you are does not fit the way your body looks. If you are somebody who is unfortunate enough to deal with beingroblem in your life, hassled about which bathroom youre going to go into when you pee like ato normal human being is one of these problems terrans gender people have to deal with every single day and people have no idea what its like on a persons psyche beyond all the other things they have to deal with in life. I hope people would take the time to maybe seek out somebody who has experienced this in real life like another reallife opinion or experience about this before they sound off about whats right and wrong. I appreciate that obama has come out in support of all americans not just the one that people are comfortable with already. Maryland. s amy in on the page of the New York Times this morning it highlights the issue of transgender children with a legislator from congress who is serving as an advocate. He is a miami republican told hisday parents about his new gender he did so in a letter that he left on her bed and then he grabbed a packed bag and went to a friends house unsure if he would he welcomed back. His shocked parents grabbed the phone and told him they loved him and asked him to come home. Her husband and son will appear in an ad with a group known as save. Here she is talking about her family situation from the group saves ad. [speaking spanish] host here is jim on the republican line. Good morning. What do you think . Caller i disagree with it. I think its going to have a really adverse effect on the Public Schools. Of they the bathroom showers and locker rooms. You have a 65 240 pound male who thinks hes a wants to be a girl and go out for the Girls Basketball team. This could be devastating to all aspects of Public School and and thank you very much. Host the guidance that was sent by the Administration Last week does have a section on the topic. F athletics you can read the document for yourself. This is the guns that was offered to school. Guidance that was offered to schools. 202 7488000 for democrats. 202 7488001 for republicans. 202 7488002 for independents. Harry on the democrat line. Caller good morning. Im a moderate democrat. I disagree with my president. We could just build or make extra bathrooms for transgender. I dont believe that you should take a young boy who wants to be female and put him in another room with other boys and not place. Me kind of take even a coy who wants to be a boy and goes into a boys bathroom. With the recent situation where a girl gets beaten to death in the bathroom, you are setting schools of for it nathan on the republican line. Caller i think this is a really to allowzy thing someone to decide whenever bathroom they want to go into. You know we have laws that keep pedophiles from living within a certain distance of schools and now we are saying its ok for them to go to target and go into whatever bathroom they choose for that day . Its not going to be a problem is to say that theres no pedophiles in this world and that theres no child pornography on the internet. And this just goes to show you the ineptitude of our government today. Noortunately we have president ial choice in this matter. Jack on twitter says the point is, no one cares. Let people be. This is just distractions from the real issues of policy and governance. Fronts a story in the page of the Washington Post this morning. Months before the defense secretary said the pentagon would be taking steps towards allowing transgender people to serve openly in the military, Patricia King became the first openly transgender member of the military. She said her commanders have been supportive. The services have some dress uniforms that include skirts. They also allow different hair lengths for men and women and have different fitness requirements for them as well. William in North Carolina on the line. Good morning. I dont have a problem with the lgbt thing as it is. It is one part of it which causes africanamericans a lot of consternation. That is we cannot sue in state court for racial discrimination. Ad that is definitely republican thing so that nobody considered for discrimination. And that is my comment and thank you. Host jacksonville florida, democrat line. Caller i called to comment on the transgender bathroom thing. I agree with the people who think it is a smokescreen to discriminate people and all aspects of their lives. That if you think have the parts of a gendered then that should be sufficient for you to use the bathroom. If you need to sit you go in with the women and if you need to stand you should go into the mens bathroom. I think that people who are concerned about their children imheir own unease believing that forever we have had people that were molesting other people and they were not transgender. They were people that look like you and me. They are your neighbors and husbands. Those are the people who are the predators. I wish they would not single these people out for wanting to use the bathroom. Tuesday is primary day for kentucky. Hillary clinton says a two state defeat might not manually change her delegate advantage but it would be embarrassing for her to continue losing states. There is some concern that the rt during will concern include conservative democrats. She predicted her Energy Agenda would put a lot of coal miners out of work. Coal miners booed as she took stage. Hillary clinton talked about her husbands role in a Clinton Administration saying that his focus would be on the economy. Going to put in charge of revitalizing the economy because you know he knows how to do it. She told supporters in kentucky. Annamaria in los angeles on the republican line. Good morning. Caller yes. Thank you for accepting my call and good morning. I was democrat all the time. Except now i vote for mr. Trump. I think hes absolutely right. Leave the things how they are. How they were for many years. Without spending millions of dollars that can be used for better things. We are not transgender. There are exactly how husband, wife. Brother. Host pat is next in plano, texas. Caller im here. My comments are not so much on the merits of the bathroom issue but the fact that we are prioritizing it to the degree we are. As a country whose middle class is being eroded on an ongoing basis. Losing all sorts of jobs and everything else. School performance is down. Why are we focusing so much attention on this . Avoid the big important issues and well so much on some insignificant issue how important it is to a few people. To me this nation ne