Texas, other states ask judge to halt Obama transgender policy

August 13, 2016 04:56

Texas and a dozen other states asked a United States judge on Friday to block Obama administration guidance to public schools that transgender students must be allowed to use bathrooms of their choice, saying it usurps the authority of school districts nationwide.

But at a hearing in Fort Worth in a lawsuit filed by the states against the US government, Justice Department lawyer Benjamin Berwick urged US District Judge Reed O'Connor to dismiss the injunction request because the federal guidelines issued in May were non-binding with no legal consequences.

Berwick also said the primarily Republican-governed states objecting had failed to show the guidelines would harm them.

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