{"id":2540,"date":"2016-01-15T10:55:34","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T18:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pacificalawgroup.com\/?p=2540"},"modified":"2020-12-12T18:31:10","modified_gmt":"2020-12-12T18:31:10","slug":"new-state-regulation-on-accommodating-a-transgender-individuals-use-of-gender-specific-facilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pacificalawgroup.com\/new-state-regulation-on-accommodating-a-transgender-individuals-use-of-gender-specific-facilities\/","title":{"rendered":"New State Regulation on Accommodating a Transgender Individual&#8217;s Use of Gender-specific Facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacificalawgroup.com\/attorneys\/chris-hirst\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chris Hirst<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacificalawgroup.com\/attorneys\/denise-stiffarm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Denise Stiffarm<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacificalawgroup.com\/attorneys\/carlos-chavez\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Carlos Chavez<\/a><\/p>\n<p>State law prohibits schools from discriminating against students or staff based on gender expression or identity.\u00a0Consistent with that prohibition,\u00a0<strong>effective\u00a0December 26, 2015,<\/strong>\u00a0the Washington Human Rights Commission adopted a new regulation requiring places of public accommodation, including schools, to allow transgender individuals to access the gender-specific facilities that are consistent with their gender expression or identity. This new regulation is consistent with prior <i>informal<\/i> guidance from the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (\u201cOSPI\u201d). Although this new regulation does not deviate from existing law and guidance, its adoption clarifies school districts obligations towards transgender individuals.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacificalawgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Transgender-Students-and-Gender-Specific-Facilities.pdf\">Read more &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Chris Hirst, Denise Stiffarm, and Carlos Chavez State law prohibits schools from discriminating against students or staff based on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6824,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-library","category-school-districts"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pacificalawgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/NR_UW_Campus2.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacificalawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacificalawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacificalawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacificalawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacificalawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacificalawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacificalawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacificalawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacificalawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacificalawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}