Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick ( R ) wants "to let every school decide" how to police transgender students' bathroom choices and will give up billions in federal education funding for his principled stand!

But when Fort Worth school district Superintendent Kent Scribner decided last month that school staff should “acknowledge the gender identity that each student consistently and uniformly asserts,” and make sure students “feel comfortable and safe in the use of restroom and locker room facilities,” Patrick called for him to resign.

“Dr. Scribner has lost his focus and thereby his ability to lead the Fort Worth [school district],” Patrick said. “He has placed his own personal political agenda ahead of the more than 86,000 students attending 146 schools in the district by unilaterally adopting ‘Transgender Student Guidelines.’”

So far, Scribner is standing by his non-discrimination policy. “Dr. Scribner has said we will follow the law,” Clint Bond, a spokesman for the school district, told The Huffington Post. “If the law changes, we will follow the new law.”

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In a statement released Friday, Scribner was more blunt: “The bottom line is that our policy helps protect kids from bullying,” he said. “Nothing more, nothing less.”

But at least one superintendent has already said he agrees with Patrick. “I got news for President Barack Obama,” Port Neches-Groves Superintendent Rodney Cavness told 12News last week. “He ain’t my President and he can’t tell me what to do.”

Yikes, those poor kids in Port Neches!

Sounds like a good plan. The US govt has no business in public education in the 1st place.

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Would think boys walking into the girls locker room would lead to more bulling. Most of the girls in school have brothers.