FLUSHGATE – AT 9:55 A.M. ET:  The gender/restroom issue is building.  It seems that more than more Americans are dismayed that the federal government, without consulting the people, can make a change in social behavior that repeals thousands of years of tradition and wisdom.  Now some state attorneys-general are taking action.  From CNN:

Washington (CNN) Officials in 11 states, including Texas, will sue the White House over its new transgender directive in schools, once again pitting the Lone Star State against an administration they have relished fighting.

Three individual school districts have also joined the federal lawsuit, according to the lawsuit , which was filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas and obtained by CNN. Joining Texas are Alabama, Wisconsin, West Virginia, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Utah and Georgia. Two school districts in Arizona, one school district in Texas and Maine Gov. Paul LePage are also listed as plaintiffs.

Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott said Wednesday that the state's attorney general, Ken Paxton, would challenge the controversial order, which tells school district to allow transgender students to use the restroom of their choice. No other details were immediately available Wednesday about the number of states joining in on the suit. Abbott announced the litigation in a tweet.

Abbott, a former state attorney general himself, has made his lawsuits against the Obama administration a touchstone of his political profile. The state is currently awaiting a decision from the Supreme Court on the constitutionality of the Obama administration's executive actions on immigration.

COMMENT:  We'll cheer them on.  No matter what side you take in the gender wars, I hope you'll agree that sensitive issues like this should be vetted in public and decided by legislatures.  I wonder how women who enter public restrooms would say if given a secret ballot. 

May 26,  2016