Thirteen U.S. states ask court to halt transgender bathroom policy
Source: Reuters
World | Wed Jul 6, 2016 4:48pm EDT
Thirteen U.S. states ask court to halt transgender bathroom policy
WASHINGTON | BY JULIA HARTE
Thirteen states that have sued the Obama administration over its policy on transgender access to bathrooms asked a federal court in Texas on Wednesday to prevent the administration from enforcing the policy while their lawsuit proceeds.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed the motion in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas on behalf of the state coalition.
"Schools are facing the potential loss of funding for simply exercising the authority to implement the policies that best protect their students," Paxton said in a statement on Wednesday.
The 13-state coalition's lawsuit is one of several state-based challenges to the federal government's May directive that public schools must allow transgender students to use bathrooms that correspond with their gender identity or face the loss of federal funding.
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