Texas superintendent: Obama’s transgender rule ‘is going straight to the paper shredder’
While the nation is mulling its reaction to
President Obama's new
federal guidance requiring
all public schools to allow members of one biological sex to use the restrooms
of the opposite sex, one school superintendent in Texas knows exactly what to
do with it: Put it in the shredder.
Dr. Rodney Cavness, superintendent in Port
Neches, Texas, said Thursday night that the forthcoming letter, released Friday
morning, would have a special place in his office.
“That letter is going straight to the paper
shredder,” he said. "I have five daughters myself and I have 2,500 girls
in my protection. Their moms and dads expect me to protect them, and that is
what I am going to do.”
The federal guidance and an accompanying
25-page document of proposed policies require that biological males who tell
school officials they are transgender must be allowed to use the girls' showers
and locker rooms, or the schools could face a federal civil rights lawsuit and
lose all education funding.
The guidance also states that members of one
biological sex must be allowed to stay overnight in the same rooms or
dormitories as members of the opposite sex, if the former identify as
transgender.
Dr. Cavness, superintendent of Port
Neches-Groves Schools, said he is sensitive to the needs of students with
gender dysphoria, but he has to draw a line over this. “Now I don't want them
bullied... but there are accommodations that can be made short of this,” he
said.
"I got news for President Barack Obama.
He ain't my president, and he can't tell me what to do,” he added. "He is
destroying the very fiber of this country. He is not a leader. He is a
failure."
