Texas and ten other states entered on Wednesday (23) in the "battle of the bathrooms" shaking the United States, using the court against the Obama administration for its action against discrimination of transgender people.
The lawsuits were brought by the Attorney General of Texas, Ken Paxton, and ten other states, Republicans mostly.
The applicants deny a circular distributed on May 13 by the Obama administration to the educational system. The memorandum states that access to bathrooms must be done according to the sex with which the student is identified, not the gender of birth.
They accused the federal authorities of trying to "transform workplaces and teaching laboratories gigantic social experiment, duping the democratic path and depreciating common sense measures that protect children and fundamental rights".
The states of Alabama, Wisconsin, West Virginia, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Utah and Georgia as well as the Arizona Education Area authorities and the governor of Maine added to the lawsuit filed by Texas.
The guidelines were published by the federal government in response to a law of North Carolina which requires transgender people to use the bathrooms according to their gender of birth.
Laws of North Carolina was considered discriminatory by various personalities of civil society and leaders of the Democratic Party.
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