Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is vowing to work with North Carolina to defend the state’s “bathroom law.”
“I am working with the governor of North Carolina, and we are going to fight back,” Abbott, a former state attorney general, told delegates at the Texas Republican Convention in Dallas on Thursday.
The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against the North Carolina law, which requires a transgender person to use the restroom facility that corresponds with their birth gender, not gender identity.
“Obama is turning bathrooms into courtroom issues,” said Abbott, a Republican.
Texas is in the middle of its own transgender policy issue. Both Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Attorney General Ken Paxton want the Fort Worth school Superintendent Kent Scribner to resign over his policy decision to allow students to use the bathroom and play on the sports team that corresponds to their gender identity. Scribner has said he will not resign, and stands by his policy decision.
