Federal judge, siding with Texas, blocks Obama rules on bathrooms for transgender students
Source: The Dallas morning News
AUSTIN - A federal judge has blocked the Obama administration's transgender guidelines for public schools, siding late Sunday with Texas and a dozen other states that challenged the contentious instructions.
U.S District Judge Reed O'Connor of Fort Worth, in issuing a nationwide preliminary injunction, said that federal officials didn't follow proper procedures in creating the directives. Further, he said the guidelines contradicted existing statutes and regulatory texts.
The decision comes as a blow for the Obama administration, which had said that schools should allow transgender students to use bathrooms that match their gender identity.
Federal officials had defended their interpretation that the word "sex" in anti discrimination statutes also covers "gender identity." They also argued that the lawsuit was filed too soon, since there the transgender policy isn't binding and since enforcement action hasn't been taken.
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What is the matter with Texas and their need to vilify Transgender students?
