The issue of which bathrooms transgender individuals use has been an issue of public debate after North Carolina passed a law in March banning transgender individuals from using bathrooms in public and government buildings that is not in correspondence with their gender written on their birth certificate.
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Global desk – Eleven states in America sued the Obama administration trying to overturn a guideline issued by the federal admiration directing all the districts school to allow transgender students with bathroom of their choice, according to media reports.
The order requires schools to allow students to use facilities that match their gender identity.
The Mississippi Department of Education initially said May 13 that it would follow the federal guidance about transgender students.
“It’s not moot because it was thrusted upon us by the federal government”, Thweatt said, “or we were going to risk losing our federal funding”.
As with some of the other states, Mississippi’s governor and attorney general disagree on the suit, which challenges the administration’s interpretation that federal civil rights laws against sex discrimination should apply to transgender people.
The 11 other states that MS will be joining in the lawsuit are Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Louisiana, Maine, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia and Wisconsin.
The lawsuit, announced Wednesday, accuses the Obama administration of “running roughshod over common sense policies” that protect children.
The lawsuit, which was filed in federal court in Texas, names the Departments of Education, Justice, and Labor, as defendants, as well as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
I strongly support Attorney General Ken Paxton’s legal action today to sue the Obama administration to stop this outrageous federal overreach.
Texas has led the charge in dozens of lawsuits against the Obama administration.
Earlier this month, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said the guidance for schools “does not add any additional requirements to any school district or state under the applicable law”. The Justice Department said it would review the complaint and did not comment further.
DOJ along with the directive has threatened to withhold federal public education dollars from states that refuse to comply.
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Supporters said the measure protects women and children from men who are sexual predators who might masquerade as the opposite sex to gain access to public restrooms.
