Conservatives in Tennessee praised a Texas judge’s decision Monday to block the Obama administration’s controversial directive that requires public schools to allow transgender students to use the restroom of their chosen gender identify.
“I applaud the court’s decision to temporarily block this heavy-handed and politically motivated directive that had no right to be forced upon our schools in the first place,” U.S. Rep. Diane Black said in a statement issued shortly after news broke that U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor called for a temporary injunction of the directive.
The directive, introduced in May, was widely blasted by Southern conservatives, including Black, R-Tenn., who said the administration’s order was tantamount to extortion.
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