Eleven states sue over Obama administration's transgender directive

Texas and 10 other states filed suit Wednesday against the Obama administration over its directive to U.S. public schools to let transgender students use the bathrooms and locker rooms that match their gender identity.

The suit was filed in a Texas federal court in response to the directive handed down to schools by the Obama administration earlier this month.

“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.

Joining TEXAS in the suit...

Alabama
Wisconsin
West Virginia
Tennessee
Arizona's Department of Education,
Maine Gov. Paul LePage
Oklahoma
Louisiana
Utah
Georgia

Conservative states had vowed to defy the federal directive, calling it a threat to the safety of students. Texas' lieutenant governor has previously said the state is willing to forfeit $10 billion in federal education dollars rather than comply.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott confirmed the lawsuit at a book signing hours before the state's Republican attorney general was scheduled to formally announce the challenge at a Wednesday news conference.

"His lawsuit is challenging the way that the Obama administration is trampling the United States Constitution,"Abbott told reporters.

The directive from the U.S. Justice and Education departments represents an escalation in the fast-moving dispute over what is becoming the civil rights issue of the day.

The guidance was issued after the Justice Department and North Carolina sued each other over a state law that requires transgender people to use the public bathroom that corresponds to the sex on their birth certificate. The law applies to schools and many other places.

Supporters say such measures are needed to protect women and children from sexual predators, while the Justice Department and others argue the threat is practically nonexistent and the law discriminatory

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/05/25/governor-texas-suing-over-obamas-transgender-directive.html/

* God Bless Texas *

The **** in the WH is really getting ahead of himself!

only 7 months left for that ****...

Once upon a time,
I was a really tolerant person.


The last 7.5 years, have changed all that.



Now, I miss the days when all the freaks could be
treated like Matthew Sheppard.

Told you Texas was NOT going to play along.

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