Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is set to file a lawsuit against the Obama administrative challenging its directive on how schools need to accommodate transgender students.
Sources told WFAA, the ABC affiliate for the Dallas-Fort Worth area, that Paxton will announce the legal challenge Wednesday in Austin.
Earlier this month, Paxton hinted he would take legal action against the Justice and Education Departments after they sent a letter to schools nationwide directing them to allow transgender students to use the bathroom that corresponds with their gender identity.
“If President Obama thinks he can bully Texas schools into allowing men to have open access to girls in bathrooms, he better prepare for yet another legal fight,” he said in a reaction statement.
Last week, Paxton was joined by the attorneys general in Oklahoma and West Virginia in writing a letter to the Obama administration asking for clarity on the guidelines and what they mean for federal education funding should a state ignore the guidance. In that letter, they asked for an administration response by Tuesday May 24.
According to the Dallas Morning News, Paxton’s press conference will be at 2 p.m. Central time in Austin.
