The case was filed by a long list of state attorneys general, including Ken Paxton of Texas, Scott Pruitt of Oklahoma, and Jeff Landry of Louisiana. After joining the lawsuit to prevent Alabama schools from being “forced to surrender their restroom access policies to social experimenters in Washington”, Strange said, the state would keep in place its current restroom and locker room policies.
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Those protections, the administration said, give transgender students the right to use their preferred bathrooms in public school and require schools to treat a student’s gender identity as the student’s sex for purposes of Title IX compliance.
She will not be allowed to use the same bathroom as female classmates, leaving Nurkin even more anxious about how her daughter will be received as the first transgender student at her public school. Following the success of the gay marriage movement, transgender rights has become a central focus of civil rights advocates, with the federal government looking to make its stance clear in the final months of the Obama presidency. Additionally, the letter mandated that school districts integrate transgender students into their preferred locker rooms, athletic teams and other facilities.
U.S. District Judge Thomas Schroeder in Winston-Salem could rule soon.
Attorney General Brad Schimel said the decision blocks “the Obama administration’s efforts to re-write federal law without congressional approval”.
That means, for now, federal agencies are not allowed to take action against schools that don’t follow the bathroom policy.
The school district put a temporary hold on the bathroom and changing facilities provision in light of the stay issued by the Supreme Court in the Virginia school case on August 3.
Uselman also says that they have private bathrooms in schools that transgender people can use. This injunction is a victory for Texas and every school district in the nation.
“So if someone is in a transgender process and they aren’t comfortable in the bathroom of the sex they were born with we would have an alternate bathroom for people to use”, says Uselman.
The Texas judge’s decision has further angered some parents of transgender students, such as Chelsa Morrison.
“I’m more grateful than ever to Denton ISD, because he’s going to have a great first day at school”, Briggle said.
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Joining Nebraska in the lawsuit are Wisconsin, Kentucky, Texas and Kansas, along with the Christian Medical and Dental Association and Franciscan Alliance, an Indiana-based network of religious hospitals.
