After spending years trying to carve out a middle ground on LGBT-friendly policies, the LDS Church has lined up against a federal directive allowing transgender students to use restrooms that match their gender identity.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints joined six other religious groups in an amicus, or "friend of the court," brief in a case before the U.S. Supreme Court regarding transgender student rights in schools.
Despite what they called "disagreements on many points of faith," the groups outlined their common opposition to the U.S. Department of Education policy extending Title IX protections to transgender students, warning it would threaten religious liberty.
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