10 states have joined Texas’ legal challenge to the Obama administration’s guidance on transgender students. As we previously reported, the Obama administration earlier this month put out a letter urging all public schools to allow transgender students to use school bathrooms in accordance with their gender identity. That move sparked a lawsuit from North Carolina against the federal government, which in turn led to a countersuit from the Department of Justice.
Earlier on Wednesday, it was announced that anti-gay Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton would file a suit similar to North Carolina’s.
The lawsuit announced Wednesday also includes Oklahoma, Alabama, Wisconsin, West Virginia, Tennessee, Maine, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Utah and Georgia. The challenge follows a federal directive to U.S. schools this month to let transgender students use the bathrooms and locker rooms that match their gender identity.
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The lawsuit accuses the Obama administration of “running roughshod over commonsense policies” that protect children. It asks a judge to declare the directive unlawful.
Watch Texas’ announcement LIVE below.
During the press conference, Paxton said he has not yet met with any transgender students or families of transgender students.
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