As anti-LGBT+ education secretary Betsy DeVos departed Donald Trump’s cabinet, she fired off a horrifying parting shot at transgender children. DeVos has served unwaveringly as secretary of education across the entire Trump presidency, but was among two cabinet members to resign last week after the storming of the US Capitol.

The move has prompted criticism, with DeVos accused of sliding herself out of harm’s way just as the cabinet comes under pressure to invoke the 25th amendment and remove Trump from office.

Her time in power is defined largely by rollbacks on LGBT+ rights, taking a hatchet to Obama-era guidance protecting trans kids and weaponising civil rights enforcement against school districts with trans-affirming policies. Joe Biden has pledged to undo these rollbacks.

DeVos apparently couldn’t resist one final blow, with her department publishing a memorandum on 8 January, the day of her resignation, seeking to twist civil rights laws to oppose affirmation of trans kids. The memo seeks to significantly warp the Supreme Court’s landmark 2020 ruling in Bostock v. Clayton County, which established that employment laws barring discrimination on the basis of sex also prohibit discrimination based on sexuality and gender identity. Read more via Pink News