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Aurora ICE raid postponed

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have allegedly called off their planned raid in Aurora – for now.

Earlier this week, three sources close to ICE told NBC News that federal enforcement agencies are targeting three U.S. cities per week for large-scale immigration arrests. This was set to include Aurora, as early as today.

But yesterday, two sources familiar with the planning told NBC that the Aurora operation was called off temporarily due to media leaks. One source said the leaks posed operational security risks for officers.

Over the past few days, ICE has made arrests in Chicago and New York City, joined by: U.S. Marshals; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives; the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and the FBI, among others.

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Woodland Park school board passes resolution recognizes “only two sexes”

Colorado’s Woodland Park School District board passed a resolution last night recognizing “only two sexes.” This decision to pass the “Recognizing Only Two Sexes and Rejecting Gender Ideology” measure comes as Donald Trump continues to roll back protections for transgender and gender non-conforming people in the first two weeks of his second administration. KGNU’s Pam Johnson has the details.

The Denver Post called the over-an-hour-long meeting contentious, with some board members wholeheartedly supporting the measure, and others expressing frustration at the focus on “nonsense issues.”

Woodland Park has not had any instances of students using bathrooms or locker rooms that are different from their biological gender, and do not currently have any all-gender restrooms.

Woodland Park is a small district in Teller County, northwest of Colorado Springs, with just under 2,000 students. The district garnered widespread attention in recent years after it hired a new superintendent and adopted a social studies standard that was created by a right-wing advocacy group.

The resolution also comes as The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights investigates Denver Public Schools for “discriminating against its female students” by replacing a girls restroom with a new gender-neutral bathroom at East High School.

Sex and gender identity are two very distinct concepts. While sex refers to the biological sex one was assigned at birth, gender identity refers to a person’s internal sense of gender that can be the same as or different from their assigned sex. Gender is a wide-ranging spectrum, not a binary.

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