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The Department of Education’s letter announcing its closure of this long-running case did not mention how the plaintiff was persistently misgendered and harassed by classmates and teachers alike. A few months later, Betsy DeVos’ Department of Education closed two major civil rights cases related to trans students and even withdrew findings from an Ohio case that asserted a trans student had been subject to discrimination and denied access to the appropriate bathroom.
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Pat McCrory, who signed the transphobic bill into law in 2016, celebrated the Trump administration’s decision. Though the cited reason for dropping the challenge was the fact that HB2 had already been partially repealed (with some of the most hateful aspects of the bill removed), former Gov. It’s important to recall that HB2 was perceived as so hateful at the time that it launched widespread boycotts of events and tourism to North Carolina, actions that could, by some estimates, cost the Tar Heel State $3.76 billion by 2029. In April 2017, the Trump administration dropped the Obama-era challenge to the notorious bathroom bill HB2 in North Carolina. Among the most heinous anti-LGBTQ policies the Trump administration pursued were its attempts to make transgender people’s lives miserable.