Texas and 10 other states entered Wednesday in the "battle of the bathrooms" waving the United States, claiming to justice the Obama administration for its measures against discrimination of transgender people.
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The lawsuits were filed by the Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton and 10 other states, most Republican governor, according to documents consulted by AFP.
These lawsuits seek to challenge a circular sent on May 13 by the Obama administration to the public education system, which states that access to the bathrooms should be by sex with which the student is identified not by the birth sex.
The plaintiffs accuse federal authorities of trying to "transform the workplace and teaching laboratories giant social experiment, circumventing the democratic path and ignoring common sense measures to protect children and fundamental rights".
The states of Alabama, Wisconsin, West Virginia, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Utah and Georgia, along with the educational authorities of Arizona and Maine Governor joined the claim of Texas.
The federal government published the guidelines in response to a North Carolina law requiring transgender people to use toilets according to their birth sex.
The standard North Carolina was considered discriminatory by many personalities from civil society and leaders of the Democratic Party.