This is good news:
A federal judge in Texas is blocking for now the Obama administration’s directive to U.S. public schools that transgender students must be allowed to use the bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with their chosen gender identity.
Hundreds of school districts Monday woke up to news of the order by U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor on the first day of class in Texas and elsewhere.
The decision dated Sunday comes after Texas and 12 other states challenged the Obama directive as unconstitutional during a hearing in Fort Worth last week. It applies to schools nationwide, as many districts reopen this week after the summer vacation.
It really ought to not matter how you feel about the issue of transgenders in bathrooms, specifically. It ought to be galling to pretty much everyone that the President feels like he can dictate such an issue of sensitive policy to every single school district in the country via executive order. Liberals who cheered Obama’s decision might want to consider what the precedent set by Obama would look like when used by, say, President Rick Santorum or some equivalent.
Process matters. And the more you care about how things are done in your son or daughter’s school district, the more you ought to be in favor of the idea that your local school board should decide these issues, given that they are much more democratically responsive than is the President of the United States.
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Good on Judge O’Connor for stopping the admin’s usurpation of school sovereignty and student privacy: https://t.co/CDTQff1CZj
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) August 22, 2016
Federal court confirms that Obama’s school bathroom decree violates federal law. https://t.co/AslQXsHKoF
— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) August 22, 2016
.@DanPatrick with some victory lapping in statement on Texas judge temporarily blocking Obama bathroom directive: pic.twitter.com/0c9nYSeRh1
— Patrick Svitek (@PatrickSvitek) August 22, 2016
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