Page 6A NATION East Oregonian Thursday, May 26, 2016 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 Television > Today’s highlights 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 Thursday Morning 6 PBS ABC NBC CBS FOX STATION AM 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. 6:30 AgDay Friends Good Day Oregon at 6 News News KOIN 6 News at 6 a.m. Wake Up Northwest KGW News at Sunrise Northwest Northwest KATU News Morning Stretch W.L.Yoga (31) KTNW (59) OPB 13 Sit and Fit Jet Go! 11 KPTV 3 (19) KEPR 2 KOIN 19 (25) KNDU 6 KGW 8 (42) KVEW 4 KATU 5 (11) KFFX Kids 7 AM 7:30 federal funding.” 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. 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