After pressure from students and parents, officials from Nevada’s Clark County School District (CCSD) will soon have to address their lack of policy regarding the protection and accommodation of transgender students.

On May 28, a group of transgender students and their parents spoke to the board and reaffirmed their requests for a policy that addresses the needs of all students, regardless of gender identity and expression. The primary priorities are accommodation in public facilities, like bathrooms and locker rooms, and district-wide training to teach faculty members and staff how to address and support transgender individuals.

After years of requests from advocates, District F Trustee Carolyn Edwards has now asked district officials to prepare a report on what work the CCSD has done regarding such a policy.

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The Las Vegas Review-Journal quotes Edwards as saying that the district has already begun researching other states’ transgender policies. “I don’t know the solution,” Edwards stated. “But we need to have a conversation.”

In 2014 an internal draft of administrative guidance distributed by the district proposed, among other things, “referring to all students by their preferred name and gender pronouns and allowing them to use the restroom that corresponds to their ‘sincerely held’ gender identity,” this according to the Review-Journal.

But the CCSD never formally introduced the guidance as a result of state lawmakers having introduced a bill that would have made it mandatory for students to use restrooms corresponding to their biological sex. The legislation, however, failed, and the district is still to announce a timeline for introducing the guidance.

The U.S. Department of Education has made threats to pull funding from schools that don’t have non-discrimination policies protecting transgender students. Nevada’s significantly smaller Washoe County School District enacted regulation to protect transgender students back in February. As matters currently stand, the CCSD has taken and continues to take a case-by-case approach with each student.