Dallas schools to crack down on trans athletes in girls' sports after video of official revealing 'loopholes'

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's bureau announced Friday that the Dallas Independent School District ("ISD") has agreed to an bid to guarantee the territory is not violating authorities instrumentality by allowing trans athletes to vie successful girls’ sports.

The statement comes aft Paxton requested records from Dallas ISD successful February pursuing the merchandise of a video that showed a schoolhouse territory authoritative explaining loopholes to a genitor and however they could get their biologically antheral kid connected a girls' sports squad via an altered commencement certificate. 

The video, which was made by an undercover writer from the outlet Accuracy successful Media, showed a Dallas ISD LGBTQ younker coordinator saying that Texas had not made a favoritism betwixt providing either an archetypal oregon updated commencement certificate for schoolhouse athletics sex eligibility. 

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"Always refining, you know? They find the loopholes successful everything," the advisor said successful the video. 

"I archer radical each the time, I volition spell to jailhouse for redeeming their child’s life," the advisor continued. "I conjecture nary blimpish kids travel retired gay." 

Later successful January, a schoolhouse authoritative from the Irving ISD was seen telling an undercover writer astir the aforesaid loophole successful different Accuracy successful Media video. 

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"Could you legally alteration the sex connected a commencement certificate? I don't cognize capable astir that subject," the Irving ISD authoritative was seen saying successful the video. "If you tin get that done, and you crook america a commencement certificate that says ‘this gender,’ that's the sex we spell with."

Paxton past requested an extended database of documents from Dallas ISD and Irving ISD connected Feb. 6. On March 31, Paxton filed a ineligible petition to behaviour depositions of cardinal Dallas ISD officials to guarantee that the District is not violating Texas instrumentality by permitting biologic males to enactment successful girls’ sports.

Now, Paxton has travel to an statement with the Dallas ISD to guarantee that specified loopholes won't beryllium exploited. 

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"I impulse each different schoolhouse districts to fulfill their ineligible obligations to support girls’ sports and extremity immoderate attempts to circumvent Texas law. Biological males person nary spot successful girls’ sports, and immoderate Texas nationalist schools doing different volition beryllium held accountable," Paxton said successful a statement. 

In June 2023, Texas passed the Save Women's Sports Act, which bans trans athletes from competing successful girls' and women's sports, and lone allows students to vie successful the sex class listed connected their commencement certificate. The instrumentality lone allows schools to admit changes made to commencement certificates that were made to close a clerical error.

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Jackson Thompson is simply a sports writer for Fox News Digital. He antecedently worked for ESPN and Business Insider. Jackson has covered the Super Bowl and NBA Finals, and has interviewed iconic figures Usain Bolt, Rob Gronkowski, Jerry Rice, Troy Aikman, Mike Trout, David Ortiz and Roger Clemens.

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