On Wednesday, officials from 11 states, with Texas as the main plaintiff, sued the Obama administration, with additional states including Alabama, Wisconsin, West Virginia, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Utah and Georgia, the Arizona Department of Education, the governor of ME, and school districts from Texas and Arizona joining in the lawsuit.
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Paxton said Harrold’s school board also included accommodations for special circumstances with students on a quote: ‘case by case basis’. “It represents just the latest example of the current administration’s attempt to accomplish by executive fiat what they could not accomplish democratically in Congress”, he said of the lawsuit.
A legal battle between the administration and South Carolina State over directive issued to allow the transgender in using the public restrooms according to their sex on the birth certificate where both the state and Obama administration have filled duelling lawsuit.
The Obama administration threatened to revoke federal education aid from states that don’t comply with the directive, and Texas alone stands to lose $10 billion of education funding over the dispute. The directive could be life-saving for transgender students, Williams said.
The district is located near the Texas-Oklahoma border and only consists of about 100 students.
The directive from the U.S. Justice and Education Departments says public schools are obligated to treat transgender students in a way that matches their gender identity, even if education documents indicate a different sex. It also shifts the spotlight from Patrick, who has so far been the state’s most vocal elected official on the issue.
The states are asking a federal judge to invalidate the order from the Department of Education as well as a memo from the EEOC warning employers that denying transgender employees access to the restroom of their gender identity is discrimination, NBC News reported.
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“The president has no authority to enact laws whatsoever”. Our Office has consistently opposed efforts like this to take away states’ rights and exclude the people’s representatives from making these decisions, or at a minimum being able to engage in a notice and comment period under the Administrative Procedures Act (APA). It asks a Texas federal court to declare the federal guidance unlawful.
