Louisiana’s AG tells schools to ignore Obama’s transgender policy
The legal backlash against President Obama's transgender restroom policy in public schools and universities has begun. Last Friday, the Obama administration sent a “dear colleague” letter to the nation's educational leaders saying that, under the president's interpretation of Title IX , schools must open their restrooms, showers, and intimate facilities to members of the opposite sex who identify as transgender. Although the federal guidance does not have the standing of law, it carries the implicit threat that schools that do not comply will lose all federal funding. Today, Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry said the order lacks not just the force of law, but any constitutional standing or common sense. In his own letter to state educational leaders, Landry said he wrote “to reassure” them that he “will vigorously defend the state and its citizens from unlawful action threatened on the basis of this incorrect interpretation of law.” “ President O