Privacy, equality, and transgender students

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🗓️ 30 March 2017

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Alexandra Brodksy of the National Women's Law Center and Gary McCaleb of the Alliance Defending Freedom discuss whether Title IX or the Constitution bans discrimination on the basis of gender identity. Continue today’s conversation on Facebook and Twitter using @ConstitutionCtr. Sign up to receive Constitution Weekly, our email roundup of constitutional news and debate, at bit.ly/constitutionweekly. Please subscribe to We the People and our companion podcast, Live at America’s Town Hall, on iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast app. We the People is a member of Slate’s Panoply network. Check out the full roster of podcasts at Panoply.fm. Despite our congressional charter, the National Constitution Center is a private nonprofit; we receive little government support, and we rely on the generosity of people around the country who are inspired by our nonpartisan mission of constitutional debate and education. Please consider becoming a member to support our work, including this podcast. Visit constitutioncenter.org to learn more. This show was engineered by Jason Gregory and produced by Nicandro Iannacci. Research was provided by Lana Ulrich. The host of We the People is Jeffrey Rosen.

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0:00.0	I'm Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, and welcome
0:07.9	to We The People, a weekly show of constitutional debate.
0:11.6	The National Constitution Center is the only institution in America, chartered by Congress, to disseminate
0:17.4	information about the U.S. Constitution on a nonpartisan basis.
0:22.3	And this week we explore one of the most hotly contested issues of our constitutional
0:27.6	discourse today, namely, do transgender students have a right to access bathrooms consistent with their gender identity rather
0:35.0	than their sex assigned at birth.
0:37.3	Earlier this month, in light of a new position taken by the Trump administration, the
0:41.2	Supreme Court vacated and remanded.
0:43.6	In other words, they sent back to the lower courts.
0:46.3	A case called Gloucester County School Board versus G.
0:50.0	A closely watched case on that very question.
0:52.3	The case turns in part on the meaning of Title IX,
0:54.9	which is a 1972 federal civil rights law
0:57.7	that bans discrimination, quote,
0:59.6	on the basis of sex, and quote, in schools. How should Title IX be interpreted and
1:04.4	what's next in our national constitutional conversation about transgender
1:08.6	rights? Joining me to discuss this important issue are two of America's leading advocates on the front lines of this debate.
1:16.0	Gary McAllab is Senior Council and Vice President of Advocacy Research and Innovation for the Alliance defending freedom. And Alexander Brodsky is a fellow at the National Women's Law Center.
1:27.0	Gary and Alexandra both filed briefs for their organization in the Gloucester County case.
1:32.0	Gary, Alexandra, thank you so much for joining.
1:34.0	My pleasure.
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