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11 states sue over Obama’s school transgender directive
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) —
Texas and 10 other states are
suing the Obama adminis-
tration over its directive to
U.S. public schools to let
transgender students use the
bathrooms and locker rooms
that match their gender
identity.
The lawsuit announced
Wednesday includes Okla-
homa, Alabama, Wisconsin,
West Virginia, Tennessee,
Maine, Arizona, Louisiana,
Utah and Georgia. It asks a
North Texas federal court
to declare the directive
unlawful in what ranks
among the most coordinated
and visible legal challenges
by states over the socially
divisive issue of bathroom
rights
for
transgender
persons.
The Obama administra-
tion has “conspired to turn
workplace and educational
settings across the country
into laboratories for a
massive social experiment,
louting the democratic
process, and running rough-
shod over commonsense
policies protecting children
and basic privacy rights,” the
lawsuit reads.
Many of the conserva-
tive states involved had
previously vowed deiance,
calling the guidance a
threat to safety while being
accused of discrimination
by supporters of transgender
rights. U.S. Attorney General
Loretta Lynch has previously
said “there is no room in our
schools for discrimination.”
The White House had no
comment on the lawsuit. The
Justice Department said it
would review the complaint
and did not comment further.
Texas’
lieutenant
governor has previously
said the state is willing to
forfeit $10 billion in federal
education dollars rather
than comply. The directive
from the U.S. Justice and
Education
Departments
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represents an escalation in
the fast-moving dispute over
what is becoming the civil
rights issue of the day.
Pressed about whether
he knew of any instances in
which a child’s safety had
been threatened because
of transgender bathroom
rights, Republican Texas
Attorney General Ken
Paxton said “there’s not a
lot of research” during a
news conference about the
lawsuit. He said he his ofice
has heard from concerned
parents, but didn’t say how
many, and said he did not
meet with any parents of
transgender students before
drafting the lawsuit.
The states claim that the
directive demands “seismic
changes” in schools across
the U.S. and forces them
to let students choose a
bathroom “that match their
chosen ‘gender identity’ on
any given day.”
Two school districts
“It’s not moot because it was
thrusted upon us by the federal
government, or we were going to
risk losing our federal funding”
— David Thweatt, North Texas Superintendent
joined the states in the
lawsuit: one is the tiny
Harrold school district in
North Texas, which has
roughly 100 students and
passed a policy this week
requiring students to use
the bathroom based on the
gender on their birth certif-
icate. Superintendent David
Thweatt said his schools
have no transgender students
to his knowledge but
defended the district taking
on the federal government.
“It’s not moot because
it was thrusted upon us by
the federal government,”
Thweatt said, “or we were
going to risk losing our
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to the sex on their birth
certiicate. The law applies
to schools and many other
places.
Supporters say such
measures are needed to
protect women and children
from sexual predators, while
the Justice Department and
others argue the threat is
practically nonexistent and
the law discriminatory.
Education oficials in
Arizona said campuses
already had policies to
protect
students
from
bullying and discrimination
“regardless of their gender
identity.” A small Arizona
school district also joined in
the lawsuit.
“The fact that the federal
government has yet again
decided that it knows what
is best for every one of
our local communities is
insulting and, quite frankly,
intolerable,” Arizona Super-
intendent of Public Instruc-
tion Diane Douglas said.
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The question of whether
federal civil rights law
protects transgender people
has not been deinitively
answered by the courts and
may ultimately be decided
by the Supreme Court. But
schools that refuse to comply
could be hit with civil rights
lawsuits from the govern-
ment and could face a cutoff
of federal aid to education.
The guidance was issued
after the Justice Department
and North Carolina sued
each other overs a state law
that requires transgender
people to use the public
bathroom that corresponds
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