Bathroom bill delayed in Tennessee amid federal actions


              FILE - In this May 17, 2016 file photo, a new sticker is placed on the door at the ceremonial opening of a gender neutral bathroom at Nathan Hale High School in Seattle. Conservatives angered by the inclusion of LGBT protections in an otherwise routine spending bill scuttled the measure Thursday, May 26, 2016, a stark display of the potency of a civil rights issue suddenly prominent in the presidential race and responsible for a legal standoff between the Obama administration and several states. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)
FILE - In this May 17, 2016 file photo, a new sticker is placed on the door at the ceremonial opening of a gender neutral bathroom at Nathan Hale High School in Seattle. Conservatives angered by the inclusion of LGBT protections in an otherwise routine spending bill scuttled the measure Thursday, May 26, 2016, a stark display of the potency of a civil rights issue suddenly prominent in the presidential race and responsible for a legal standoff between the Obama administration and several states. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A Tennessee lawmaker is stalling a transgender bathroom bill for a week or two amid recent federal actions.

Republican Rep. Mark Pody said his bill was delayed in committee Tuesday to allow time to re-evaluate the wording.

The U.S. Supreme Court opted Monday not to decide whether federal anti-discrimination law applied in a school transgender bathroom case.

Last month, the Trump administration withdrew President Obama's directive that schools let students use bathrooms of their self-identified gender, not birth.

Republican Senate Speaker Randy McNally has said the state bill isn't needed after the Trump administration's move.

Pody says recent actions make it a state issue.

Pody's bill would require students in public schools and public colleges and universities to use restrooms and locker rooms of their sex on their birth certificates.

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