Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood says Mississippi will not join 11 other states in the federal lawsuit against the Obama administration over it’s directive on transgender bathrooms.
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Jeff Landry, the attorney general for Louisiana, vowed that he would “not allow Washington to wreak further havoc on our schools”, while Patrick Morrisey, attorney general for West Virginia, said that if it goes through, the guidance would “force a seismic shift in local schools”.
The Lawsuit against the directive quoted as, “Defendants have conspired to turn workplaces and educational settings across the country into laboratories for a massive social experiment”.
The Obama Administration is attempting to rewrite Congress’s use of the term “sex” in federal law to now expand to include “gender identity”.
Two days after the Obama administration issued its guidance, Gov. Bryant responded on Facebook, saying the “Mississippi Department of Education should disregard the so-called guidance the Obama administration has issued regarding public schools’ restroom policies”.
“The governor has opted to join Texas in its broad lawsuit against the federal government in his capacity as governor alone”, Hood said.
Phil Bryant, R, said in a statement Thursday that his office had already spoken with Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general, who is leading the suit.
The guidance issued by the Department of Education and Department of Justice detailed guidelines explaining the obligations that schools receiving public funding have to their transgender students.
“I can not lend the name of the state of MS to this lawsuit”, he said. Although schools aren’t required to follow the order, by ignoring it they risk losing the federal funding they rely on to operate.
Meanwhile, sports leagues have threatened to pull games from North Carolina over that state’s “bathroom law”, but Paxton said he’d tell them to look at the law and realize the nation is a constitutional democracy and a republic.
Thweatt said that the Harrold school district, that numbers about 100 students, does not have any transgender students.
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The letter directs the school authority to give access to the students according to their gender identity rather than the sex mentioned in their birth certificates.
