Eleven states filed lawsuits this week
against the Obama administration over the directive to allow
transgender students to choose which bathroom they use in public
schools.
According to Fox News, the suit was filed in a Texas court after Obama
announced earlier this month that transgender students should be able to
use the restroom of their choice to match their gender identity.
“This represents just the latest example of the current
administration’s attempts to accomplish by executive fiat what they
couldn’t accomplish through the democratic process in Congress," Texas
Attorney General Ken Paxton said.
"President Obama has excluded the voice of the people. We stand today to ensure those voices are heard," Paxton said.
The states involved in the suit are: Texas, Alabama, Wisconsin, West
Virginia, Tennessee, Arizona's Department of Education, Maine Gov. Paul
LePage, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Utah and Georgia.
“Defendants have conspired to turn workplaces and educational settings
across the country into laboratories for a massive social experiment,
flouting the democratic process, and running roughshod over commonsense
policies protecting children and basic privacy rights,” the lawsuit
says.
Texas’s lieutenant governor has already said that the state is willing
to forfeit its $10 billion in federal education funds rather than comply
with the directive.
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