Federal Judge halts Obama’s transgender school bathroom mandate
from NOM:
We’ve won a huge legal victory today as a federal judge has issued a nationwide injunction prohibiting President Obama’s illegal decree attempting to force all public schools to open their bathrooms, showers and locker rooms based on a student’s perceived “gender identity” rather than actual sex.
This is the second time in the past three weeks where federal courts have blocked Obama’s transgender school policies from being enforced. Earlier this month the US Supreme Court issued an order that had the effect of blocking the policies in Virginia, but today’s order by Judge Reed O’Connor in Texas covers the entire country. It comes as parents are sending their children back to school following the summer break, and it’s a big relief for parents and students alike.
Texas and nearly two dozen other states have sued the Obama administration in lawsuits pointing out that President Obama does not have the legal authority to impose his dangerous transgender rules in the public schools, and threaten them with loss of federal funding if they refuse to comply. Obama took the unprecedented action by issuing “administrative guidance” in a letter to public schools. Today’s ruling by Justice O’Connor in one of the lawsuits finds that Obama did not follow proper procedures for notice and comments when issuing the guidelines, and that their effect is to enact laws that contravene existing legislative and regulatory texts. The Obama administration is expected to appeal.
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