Faced with sustained assault from angry reactionaries who want to outlaw trans people, I feel heartened and encouraged to see the federal government finally standing up to defend us. But at a time when humanity is confronted with multiple urgent existential threats arising from our collective failure to live peacefully and sustainably within the ecological constraints of our planet, it is dismaying to see such a large slice of our political bandwidth saturated with trans issues.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/obama-transgender-bathroom-students-title-ix-223170