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Members of the transgender community take part in a rally on the steps of the Texas Capitol, Monday, March 6, 2017, in Austin, Texas. The group is opposing a "bathroom bill" that would require people to use public bathrooms and restrooms that correspond with the sex on their birth certificate. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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Texas Sen. Lois Kolkhorst, R-Brenham, speaks as the Senate State Affairs Committee begins to debate Senate Bill 6 at the Texas Capitol, Tuesday, March 7, 2017, in Austin, Texas. The the transgender "bathroom bill" would require people to use public bathrooms and restrooms that correspond with the sex on their birth certificate. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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Texas Sen. Bryan Hughes, R-Mineola, and Sen. Joan Huffman, R-Houston, talk as the Senate State Affairs Committee begins debate Senate Bill 6 at the Texas Capitol, Tuesday, March 7, 2017, in Austin, Texas. The the transgender "bathroom bill" would require people to use public bathrooms and restrooms that correspond with the sex on their birth certificate. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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Texas Sen. Lois Kolkhorst, R-Brenham, speaks as the Senate State Affairs Committee begin talks about Senate Bill 6 at the Texas Capitol, Tuesday, March 7, 2017, in Austin, Texas. The the transgender "bathroom bill" would require people to use public bathrooms and restrooms that correspond with the sex on their birth certificate. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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FILE - In this Feb. 27, 2017 file photo, Budget Director Mick Mulvaney speaks to reporters during a daily press briefing at the White House in Washington. Republican leaders embarked on an ambitious plan Tuesday to try to sell their new health care proposal to rank-and-file lawmakers and the public, absent specifics on costs or how many Americans will be covered. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
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FILE - In this March 2, 2017 file photo, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. Republican leaders embarked on an ambitious plan Tuesday to try to sell their new health care proposal to rank-and-file lawmakers and the public, absent specifics on costs or how many Americans will be covered. Pelosi said Tuesday, March 7, 2017, that Republicans are underestimating the high costs of health care for people living with pre-existing medical conditions. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, center, attends a swearing-in-ceremony for a new group of border guards known locally as “border hunters,” in Budapest, Hungary, Tuesday, March 7, 2017. Orban, an early supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump, has ordered the reinforcement of fences on Hungary’s southern borders to keep out migrants. (Szilard Koszticsak/MTI via AP)
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban,delivers a speech during a swearing-in-ceremony for a new group of border guards known locally as “border hunters,” in Budapest, Hungary, Tuesday, March 7, 2017. Orban, an early supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump, has ordered the reinforcement of fences on Hungary’s southern borders to keep out migrants. (Szilard Koszticsak/MTI via AP)
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FILE - In this Sept. 21, 2016 file photo Hungarian soldiers, front, and police officers patrol at the transit zone at Hungary's southern border with Serbia near Tompa, 169 km southeast of Budapest, Hungary. Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban, an early supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump, has ordered the reinforcement of fences on Hungary’s southern borders to keep out migrants, many of whom are Muslims. (Sandor Ujvari/MTI via AP, file)
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FILE - In this Sept. 21, 2016 file photo a Hungarian soldier patrols at the transit zone at Hungary's southern border with Serbia near Tompa, 169 km southeast of Budapest, Hungary. Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban, an early supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump, has ordered the reinforcement of fences on Hungary’s southern borders to keep out migrants, many of whom are Muslims. (Sandor Ujvari/MTI via AP, file)
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FILE - In this Oct. 20, 2015 file photo migrants cross the Austrian - Slovenian border in Spielfeld, Austria. Austria was among the first countries in Europe to put out the welcome mat to migrants when the first waves of people fleeing war and poverty reached the continent. Now, its focus is showing them the door. Parliament is set to pass a law stripping denied asylum-seekers of pocket money, food and shelter, potentially leaving them on the street. (AP Photo/Christian Bruna, file)
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Gloucester County High School senior Gavin Grimm, a transgender student, rests his head on American Civil Liberties Union attorney Gail Deady, right, after a news conference in Richmond, Va., Monday, March 6, 2017. The Supreme Court is handing the Gloucester High School transgender teen's case back to a lower court without reaching a decision. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
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Gloucester County High School senior Gavin Grimm, a transgender student, speaks during a news conference in Richmond, Va., Monday, March 6, 2017. The Supreme Court is leaving the issue of transgender rights in schools to lower courts for now after backing out of a high-profile case Monday of the Virginia high school student who sued to be able to use the boys' bathroom. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
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Gloucester resident Andrew Snyder gestures during an interview in Gloucester, Va., Monday, March 6, 2017. Snyder, a 57-year-old Coast Guard retiree whose son attends the same high school as transgender student Gavin Grimm, said Monday that he thought the district had "more than accommodated Gavin." But said he didn't want to see Grimm ostracized. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
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Shaelyn McNeil, a 17-year-old senior at Grimm's high school, speaks while working at The Silver Box, a jewelry and gift shop in downtown Gloucester, Va., Monday March, 6, 2017. McNeil, who goes to the same school as transgender student Gavin Grimm, said that while she thought Grimm should be free to make any physical changes he wants, his use of the boys bathroom made some classmates uncomfortable. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
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FILE - In this Aug. 22, 2016 file photo, transgender high school student Gavin Grimm poses in Gloucester, Va. The Supreme Court is returning a transgender teen’s case to a lower court without reaching a decision. The justices said Monday, March 6, 2017, they have opted not to decide whether federal anti-discrimination law gives high school senior Gavin Grimm the right to use the boys’ bathroom in his Virginia school. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)
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Gloucester County High School senior Gavin Grimm, a transgender student, arrives for a news conference in Richmond, Va., Monday, March 6, 2017. The Supreme Court is handing the Gloucester High School transgender teen's case back to a lower court without reaching a decision. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
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Wednesday's "A Day Without a Woman" is drawing fire as the mass walkout from jobs may harm low-income women. (Associated Press)
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FILE - This Dec. 29, 2015 file photo shows guards walking a corridor in the death row adjustment center at San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, Calif. A settlement of a lawsuit by inmates against the state of California, obtained by The Associated Press, says the state no longer will keep inmates in the center just for being gang members. Inmates can still be sent to the windowless cells if they are considered an immediate danger. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)
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FILE - In this Aug. 16, 2016 file photo, Scott Pinholster stands in his cell in the adjustment center on death row at San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, Calif. A settlement of a lawsuit by inmates against the state of California, obtained by The Associated Press, says the state no longer will keep inmates in the center just for being gang members. Inmates can still be sent to the windowless cells if they are considered an immediate danger. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)
