Texas AG on bathroom guidance: Men will become women then switch back

According to Paxton, the guidance is a “solution in search of a problem.”

“This guideline doesn’t address any particular problem. They have not been very specific about what they’re trying to solve. This opens the door with all kinds of issues with men deciding one day they want to be women and then switching back the next day,” Paxton, a Republican, said during an interview on “Fox & Friends” Thursday morning. “It’s just — it doesn’t answer any particular question.”

Paxton said the lawsuit is meant to find out what would happen to school districts that receive federal funding, money the Education and Justice departments said would be in jeopardy should states not follow the guidance.

Co-host Brian Kilmeade asked Paxton what he would tell sports leagues and teams who say he, and other states, are being intolerant of transgender people.

“Well I’d just tell them to look at the law and realize that we’re a constitutional republic,” Paxton said. “And that we need to focus on following the law and if these groups want to change the law, they should go in and speak to their congressmen and work on changing those laws, but it shouldn’t come through the White House. That’s not the constitutional job of the White House.”

But “there’s law and there’s logic,” Kilmeade said, asking if Paxton thinks the issue of transgender bathroom use should be a priority of the federal government.

“Oh, absolutely not,” Paxton said.

Eleven states — Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Louisiana, Maine, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia and Wisconsin — joined in the lawsuit, filed Thursday.

The federal guidance, the lawsuit states, “has no basis in law” and could cause “seismic changes in the operations of the nation’s school districts.”