Federal Judge Blocks Obama's Transgender Bathroom/Locker Room Mandate, Just as Some Classes Begin

Bob Eschliman : Aug 22, 2016
Charisma News

"This president is attempting to rewrite the laws enacted by the elected representatives of the people, and is threatening to take away federal funding from schools to force them to conform. That cannot be allowed to continue, which is why we took action to protect states and school districts."

(Texas)—[Charisma News] A federal judge in Texas has issued an order to block the Obama administration's transgender mandate for public schools. (File Photo: Schoolkids/flickr)

With school set to start Monday morning in a number of U.S. states, a Texas federal judge's order has changed a key policy many school districts were grudgingly preparing to enforce.
 
U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor determined federal officials didn't follow proper procedures in creating the Obama administration's transgender mandate for public schools. In releasing an order to block the mandate throughout the U.S., he added the administration's guidelines contradicted existing statutes and regulatory texts.
 
U.S. public schools were instructed in May that transgender students must be allowed to use bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with their chosen gender identity just days after the Justice Department sued North Carolina over a state law that requires people to use public bathrooms that correspond with the sex on their birth certificate...
 
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