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EPIC City Update: More Lawsuits!

Wednesday, February 18th, 2026

I’d sort of stopped paying attention to the Muslim EPIC City land development northeast of Dallas because it no longer seemed even a dead horse, but merely a moist red spot in the road. It’s looking less and less like a speartip of jihad and more like a classic speculative land swindle. But this week brought not one, but two entirely new sets of legal scrutiny for EPIC City.

First up: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sues over some shady MUD shenanigans.

Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against Double R Municipal Utility District No. 2A of Hunt and Collin Counties and individuals claiming to serve on its board, alleging unlawful actions intended to skirt state oversight and benefit a controversial North Texas development tied to the East Plano Islamic Center.

According to Paxton’s office, the lawsuit was filed after evidence surfaced that Double R MUD held a “highly unusual” special meeting on September 12, 2025—scheduled at noon at a remote location marked only by GPS coordinates.

At that meeting, the existing board members allegedly resigned, were immediately replaced by new individuals, and the newly formed board then approved an expansion of the district’s boundaries.

Does sound shady, doesn’t it?

The board’s rapid approval reportedly annexed more than 400 acres described as “The Meadow,” previously known as “EPIC City,” into the Double R MUD.

The attorney general contends that this maneuver was designed to help EPIC City developers evade state review by expanding an existing district rather than going through the legal process of forming a new one.

Paxton’s office further alleges that some or all of the new board members do not meet the legal qualifications required to hold office within a municipal utility district. When state regulators sought documentation verifying their eligibility, Double R MUD delayed producing records, and those eventually provided reportedly confirmed the individuals were unqualified to exercise taxing authority or serve as directors.

“I will not allow individuals to cheat the system to advance an illegal development and destroy beautiful Texas land,” Paxton said in a statement announcing the suit. “If EPIC City’s developers or operatives are attempting to illegally take over local governmental structures in North Texas, my office will do everything in our power to stop their scheme.”

It does indeed seem like EPIC City is trying to pull a fast one on the state, even after Collin County rejected their development plans.

But their trouble doesn’t end there! Uncle Sam is now getting into the act, with a HUD investigation into the project.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Department of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity (FHEO) announced on Friday, February 13 the launch of an investigation into East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC) Real Properties Inc and Community Capital Partners, LP.

The investigation centers around the allegedly Muslim-centric community called “The Meadow” — previously known as EPIC City — and HUD’s allegations state that the entity “may have violated the Fair Housing Act by engaging in religious and national origin discrimination.”

HUD Secretary Scott Turner stated, “It is deeply concerning the East Plano Islamic Center may have violated the Fair Housing Act and participated in religious discrimination,”

“As HUD Secretary, I will not stand for illegal religious or national origin discrimination in housing and will ensure that this matter receives a thorough investigation so that this community is open to all Texans.”

The Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) submitted a complaint to HUD “detailing a large-scale pattern of religious discriminatory conduct by the developers of The Meadow.” Last year, the federal government was investigating the development through the Department of Justice, which closed its investigations into EPIC in July 2025, finding The Meadow to be consistent with the Fair Housing Act.

The TWC alleged that EPIC was using marketing materials aimed exclusively at Muslim populations and leveraging “discriminatory financial terms” which required lot owners in The Meadow to also subsidize a mosque and Islamic education centers. The TWC also alleged that lot sales were subject to a two-tier lottery system, which favored those in the first tier by granting “lot access to Tier-One buyers.”

The Meadow is a planned multipurpose development Northeast of Dallas, that aims to house a K-12 school, 402 acres of land, shops and retail centers, and 1,000 homes. The build has amassed attention, lawsuits, and investigations from state officials in the last year, including Gov. Greg Abbott, Senator John Cornyn (R-TX), and Attorney General Ken Paxton. It has become a choice issue for some candidates on the Republican ballot for the March 3 primary elections.

Abbott lauded the recent investigation by HUD in a press release, stating that he initiated the TWC’s investigation into EPIC. “Together,” stated Abbott, “we will hold anyone involved in violating the law accountable. The Meadow will remain just that — an empty field.”

Silly me. I thought all the scrutiny and existing lawsuits were enough to keep EPIC City dead in the water, but then the developers go and pull shady MUD maneuvers just two months ago to try to keep the project moving.

So it appears that horse isn’t quite dead after all, so more beating is probably in order…

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Paxton: “Hey, How About We Limit Voting To Citizens?”

Thursday, October 23rd, 2025

In the wake of the social justice madness that metastasized across America in the Biden years, a whole lot of things past generations took for granted now have to be spelled out. Things like: “There are only two sexes, male and female, biologically determined before birth.” Or “official government discrimination based on race is wrong.” Or “facial tattoos are not an advantage when seeking gainful employment.” Add to that list “Only American citizens should be allowed to vote.” You would think that would be a given, but blue states like Minnesota are handing our driver’s licenses like candy and accept that as proof of citizenship for voting. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, along with a lot of other state AGs, is trying to do something about it.

Attorney General Ken Paxton has joined with 13 other states in support of a rulemaking petition that would require proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections.

Paxton filed a multistate comment with the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) backing a petition by America First Legal Foundation (AFL) to amend federal voter registration regulations. The proposed change would tighten election integrity rules under the National Voter Registration Act by mandating documentary proof of U.S. citizenship on federal voter registration forms.

“It’s imperative that only eligible U.S. citizens are registering and voting in our elections,” Paxton said. “Free and fair elections are the cornerstone of our Republic, and every illegal vote dilutes the voice of law-abiding American citizens. We must require proof of citizenship to protect the voice of the true American people, which is why I’m leading this national coalition in supporting AFL’s rulemaking petition.”

The filing argues that the current voter registration process—based on self-attestation of citizenship—fails to adequately safeguard voter rolls from ineligible registrations.

Paxton and the coalition of attorneys general urged the EAC to revise its regulations to allow states to verify citizenship status more effectively and maintain accurate voter lists.

Paxton also referenced President Donald Trump’s Executive Order 14248, Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections, issued earlier this year. The order directs federal agencies to strengthen election security and prevent unlawful voting.

Snip.

The attorneys general of Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Nebraska, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, and West Virginia joined Paxton.

Again, that only citizens should vote in American elections should go without saying. But even here in Texas, a state with strong voter ID laws the state government tries to actively enforce, over 2,000 non-citizens were registered to vote.

After running its entire list of more than 18 million voters through the SAVE database, Texas has identified 2,724 potential noncitizens who are registered to vote in the state.

Secretary of State Jane Nelson announced Monday that her office had completed a full comparison of the state’s voter registration list against data in the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ SAVE database.

SAVE (Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements) is an online service for government agencies to verify the immigration status and naturalized/acquired U.S. citizenship of applicants seeking benefits or licenses.

“Only eligible United States citizens may participate in our elections,” stated Secretary Nelson. “The Trump Administration’s decision to give states free and direct access to this data set for the first time has been a game changer, and we appreciate the partnership with the federal government to verify the citizenship of those on our voter rolls and maintain accurate voter lists.”

Nelson announced in June that Texas had become one of the first states to partner with USCIS to compare its voter list with SAVE data. In its initial review, the agency found 33 potential noncitizens who may have voted illegally in the November 2024 election and referred them to the Office of the Attorney General.

In a state that had 18.6 million registered voters in 2024, 2,724 may seem like a tiny sum. But Texas is a deep red state that takes voting fraud very seriously. How many orders of magnitude worse is the situation in blue states where Democrats have actively destroyed safeguards with the explicit goal of getting more illegal aliens registered to vote?

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Paxton Goes After Antifa

Wednesday, October 8th, 2025

Following the Trump Administration finally declaring Antifa a terrorist organization, Texas Attorney General has decided to investigate the violent leftwing social justice group as well.

In the wake of escalating political violence nationwide, Attorney General Ken Paxton announced the initiation of undercover operations aimed at infiltrating and dismantling left-wing groups associated with political extremism in Texas.

The Office of the Attorney General will specifically target organizations alleged to have ties to Antifa and other radical movements, citing increased incidents of armed attacks on federal facilities and threats to public safety.

Paxton warned of the dangers posed by “leftist political terrorism,” referencing ideologies such as Antifa and “the radical transgender movement.”

Good call.

Paxton described these groups as “a cancer on our culture,” asserting that they have “unleashed their deranged and drugged-up foot soldiers on the American people.”

There can be no compromise with those who want us dead. To that end, I have directed my office to continue its efforts to identify, investigate, and infiltrate these leftist terror cells.

Paxton’s remarks follow President Donald Trump officially designating Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization, directing federal agencies to investigate, disrupt, and dismantle any illegal operations associated with the organization.

Building on this federal action, Paxton has instructed his staff to expand investigations into radical leftist organizations suspected of supporting or committing acts of violence.

Paxton referenced several violent incidents that precipitated these measures:

  • In July, nearly two dozen armed left-wing militants attacked an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Alvarado.
  • On September 10, 2025, Charlie Kirk was killed in what officials identified as a politically motivated act by a person associated with the “radical transgender movement.”
  • Two weeks after the Kirk incident, an ICE facility in Dallas was also targeted by gunfire in a separate attack allegedly linked to left-wing radicalism.

    • The OAG is coordinating undercover investigations with state and federal law enforcement to infiltrate organizations believed to promote violence or engage in terrorist activity.

    Note the two of those examples, Alvarado and the Dallas ICE attack, happened in Texas, providing jurisdiction for the Texas Attorney General to get involved.

    It’s long been known that far left organizations like George Soros’ Tides Foundation or Neville Roy Singham’s Party for Socialism and Liberation have pumped money into Antifa, sometimes through organizational cutouts to obscure the cash flow. Both Paxton and Kash Patel should be working on subpoenas for bank and communication records for such organizations, to be followed quickly by criminal charges and lawsuits to shut them down for good.

    Antifa’s decentralized nature make it a difficult next of vipers to eradicate, but when you cut off its head, a snake dies…

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    Trump Halts Biden-Era Texas Land Grab

    Thursday, July 31st, 2025

    Remember back in 2024, when the Biden Administration wanted to grab 700,000 acres of Texas and New Mexico land in the name of environmentalism? Trump47 is finally putting an end to that nonsense.

    The Trump administration’s U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has officially withdrawn the Land Protection Plan that would have enabled a dramatic expansion of the Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge in West Texas, a move celebrated by Texas lawmakers and land rights advocates as a major victory for private property rights.

    The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced the withdrawal on Wednesday, with Service Principal Deputy Director Justin Shirley explaining it is “consistent with the priorities of the Trump administration” by “reducing regulatory burdens, strengthening partnerships with state and local stakeholders, and ensuring responsible stewardship of taxpayer resources.”

    Originally finalized under the Biden administration, the Muleshoe Land Protection Plan would have allowed the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to expand the refuge from its current 6,440 acres to up to 700,000 acres—an increase of over 10,000 percent—by purchasing land or acquiring conservation easements from willing sellers across a vast area of Texas and New Mexico.

    No, you can’t eat 700,000 acres using regulatory fiat. Not yours.

    The Biden proposal would have eaten up land in 15 Texas counties, including Bailey, Castro, Cochran, Crosby, Dawson, Gaines, Garza, Hale, Hockley, Lamb, Lubbock, Lynn, Parmer, Terry, and Yoakum. The expansion into five counties in New Mexico includes land from Chaves, Curry, De Baca, Lea, and Roosevelt counties. The proposed map showed the feds “protecting” land right up to the edge of Lubbock.

    This move was portrayed by the administration as part of its broader “30×30” initiative to conserve 30 percent of U.S. lands and waters by 2030.

    Both the Muleshoe expansion plan and the 30×30 plan in general smacked of the sort of unauthorized, self-directed bureaucratic empire-building that the Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo decision struck down.

    The project engendered strong opposition from Texas representatives, including House Budget Chairman Jodey Arrington (R–Lubbock), who played a pivotal role in the reversal.

    Arrington argued the plan was an “outrageous land grab” that threatened the property rights and livelihoods of West Texans, especially local farmers, ranchers, and energy producers.

    He introduced legislation—the No Federal Expansion Designation (No FED) in West Texas Act—to specifically prohibit the expansion.

    Arrington’s amendment to defund the proposed expansion successfully passed the House in July 2024 as part of the fiscal year 2025 Interior Appropriations Bill.

    Multiple efforts, including public hearings, letters to federal authorities, and vocal messaging against the plan, culminated in President Trump’s executive orders prioritizing energy development and property rights, which underpinned the Fish and Wildlife Service’s decision to withdraw the LPP.

    Issue by issue, the gross leftwing overreach of the Biden Administration is being reigned in and replaced with respect for the constitution, the rule of law, and private property rights.

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    Paxton Sues NCAA Over Transsexual Deception

    Monday, February 24th, 2025

    Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed another lawsuit, this one against the NCAA over “deceptive trade practices,” namely pretending that NCAA women’s sports are, in fact, limited to women, despite carving out a huge loophole for men pretending to be women to drive through.

    Attorney General Ken Paxton is taking legal action against the National Collegiate Athletic Association, seeking a temporary injunction to halt what he claims are “deceptive trade practices” as the organization’s athlete eligibility policy could allow men to compete in women’s sports.

    Paxton alleges that the NCAA’s recently amended policy—presented as aligning with President Donald Trump’s executive order to “Keep Men Out of Women’s Sports”—is actually a misleading “illusion of change” that still allows biological males to compete in women’s sports.

    The legal move follows Paxton’s December 2024 lawsuit against the NCAA, which accused the organization of false advertising by promoting sporting events as exclusively “women’s” competitions while permitting biological males to participate.

    According to the temporary injunction filing, the NCAA’s amended Transgender Eligibility Policy (TEP), effective February 6, 2025, is inconsistent with Trump’s executive order and does not prevent biological men from competing in women’s sports.

    Paxton’s application for a temporary injunction highlights key areas of disagreement with the NCAA’s current policy:

  • Definition of sex: The lawsuit states that the NCAA determines a student-athlete’s sex according to “birth records” and designations “assign[ed]” by doctors, rather than biological makeup “at conception.”
  • Changeable vs. immutable: The suit alleges that the NCAA treats sex as changeable rather than an immutable characteristic

    • The attorney general’s filing also raises concerns about the NCAA’s enforcement mechanisms, specifically pointing out the lack of sex-screening procedures for student-athletes.

    Paxton argues that this absence allows biological males to “surreptitiously participate” in women’s sports categories, citing the example of Blair Fleming, a biological male who played on San Jose State University’s women’s volleyball team for two years without initially disclosing his biological sex.

    With the 2024-25 Women’s NCAA March Madness basketball tournament approaching, Paxton asserts that the NCAA’s deceptive practices are causing confusion among consumers and potentially harming female athletes.

    Paxton is asking the court to order the NCAA to immediately begin screening the sex of student athletes and prohibiting biological males from participating in women’s sports categories.

    Social Justice Warriors pushing a radical transsexual agenda have been controlling decisions at the NCAA, making them rule in direct opposition to the clear language of Title IX, the wishes of female student athletes, and the will of the American people and their elected government. There are two biological sexes, male and female, and retroactively changing a birth certificate from male to female doesn’t actually change a person’s sex.

    Men shouldn’t be allowed to compete in women’s sports. That this common sense proposition even needs to be argued for is a sign of how illogical social justice madness has infected our institutions.

    Let’s hope that the NCAA can be made to see the error of their ways well before this lawsuit even gets to trial.

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    Dade Phelan/Texas Speaker Race Update

    Monday, September 16th, 2024

    I’ve been needing to post a Dade Phelan/Texas Speaker’s Race update for a few weeks now, because I held off because I needed more information and I wasn’t sure what’s going on. Now a couple of tidbits of news have dropped that pretty much requires a post…but I’m still not sure what’s going on.

  • Now that Rep. John Smithee (R-Amarillo) has joined the race there are five Republican representatives who have declared they’re running for Speaker:
    • David Cook (Mansfield)
    • James Frank (Wichita Falls)
    • Tom Oliverson (Cypress)
    • Shelby Slawson (Stephenville)
    • John Smithee (Amarillo)
  • But wait! It’s not just republicans! Democrat Ana-Maria Ramos has also thrown her hat into the speaker’s race ring.

    State Rep. Ana-Maria Ramos has filed to run for Speaker of the House, becoming the first Democrat to do so in what is becoming a crowded race against incumbent Speaker Dade Phelan.

    Snip.

    With Republicans expected to maintain or even grow their current majority in the Texas House, Ramos is unlikely win her bid for speaker. It does, however, add to the ever-growing consensus that Phelan will not be speaker next session.

  • In theory, the Republican caucus will determine their speaker nominee by secret ballot.

    The vote for Speaker of the House will take place on the first day of the legislative session on January 14, 2025.

    The decision may be made long before that as part of the Republican Caucus’ nominating process.

    The process of Republican legislators nominating a unified speaker candidate ahead of the official vote at the start of the session in January was adopted in 2017, in an attempt to prevent Republican speaker candidates, like then-Speaker Joe Straus, from courting Democrat support for the position.

    In the years since, however, both the former Speaker Dennis Bonnen and the current Speaker Dade Phelan have released lists containing Democrat supporters ahead of the caucus vote, making the exercise a formality.

    This year appears to be shaping up differently as Phelan has already gained four challengers who have promised to appoint only Republicans as committee chairs and gain Republican support first. For the first time, the caucus nomination process could be significant.

    The caucus vote will take place in December as part of their retreat ahead of the session. To clench the caucus’ nomination, multiple rounds of voting can take place during a secret ballot. The winner must receive 2/3 support during the first two rounds of voting. If that does not occur, the threshold then drops to 3/5.

    The widespread disillusion with Phelan over the Paxton impeachment, the school choice vote, and so many Phelan loyalists getting slaughtered in the primary, plus the vocal opposition of Governor Greg Abbott, Lt. Governor Dan Patrick, and Senator Ted Cruz to Phelan continuing as speaker, plus a secret ballot, would seem to doom Phelan’s chances of being the Republican caucus choice.

  • But Texas speaker election rules run things on a top-two runoff basis, not round-by-round elimination, and the process is overseen by the Secretary of State. In combination with Ramos’s run, this would seem to eliminate Phelan’s chance to be elected speaker, as Democrats would presumably support Ramos on the first ballot, while Republicans would support whatever non-Phelan candidate gets the official GOP House Caucus nod, which means Phelan is left out of the top two.
  • Maybe Ramos is getting high on her own supply, actually believing that Democrats are ready to “turn Texas blue,” perhaps thanks to the Democratic Party’s relentless importation of illegal aliens. But since Ken Paxton has been hypervigilant in cracking down on potential voting fraud, that outcome seems…remote.
  • But since the cabal backing the Straus-Bonnen-Phelan speakership line is unlikely to go gently into that good night, I must be missing something. There must be some scheme to either keep Phelan in the speaker’s chair, or elect another cabal toady in his place, that I’m just not seeing.
  • Phelan shows every sign of trying to finagle another term, even going so far as to declare that now he he really is for school choice after working so hard to kill it last session. I don’t think anyone believes those new spots are genuine.
  • Another sign that Phelan is working to win is the announcement that former Republican Governor Rick Perry has hired as a senior advisor.

    Perry’s new position follows the announcement of Phelan’s new chief of staff, Mike Toomey, whose campaign finance records show numerous donations to Democrat lawmakers since 2015.

    Toomey, who previously served as chief of staff to Rick Perry, has been a casino lobbyist, which garnered him between $3.4 and $6.7 million this session alone. One of Toomey’s largest clients is the Las Vegas Sands Corporation, which seeks to legalize monopolistic casino gambling in Texas.

    Toomey has also represented Texans for Lawsuit Reform, the group that advocated for Phelan’s impeachment of Paxton last year. Notably, Perry’s name was on the by-line of a Wall Street Journal op-ed calling for Paxton’s impeachment and conviction; the article was ghost-written by TLR.

    As of 2022, Perry has warmed up to the expansion of gambling, becoming a spokesperson for Sports Betting Alliance, a group lobbying to legalize mobile sports gambling in Texas.

    Perry will advise Phelan in a “voluntary capacity” until the start of the 89th Texas Legislature in January, according to an official press release.

    Perry’s support of Phelan may seem inexplicable to Texas Republicans who remember him as a conservative stalwart, but Perry has long gone off on ill-advised tangents every now and them, from backing the Gardasil mandate for pre-teen girls to his love for expensive high speed rail subsidies to derailing his presidential campaign by debating while hopped up on goofballs for back surgery.

    Plus, I suspect that gambling money pipeline jets out a pretty lucrative stream…

  • Finally, I note for the record this Texas Scorecard “Speaker Phelan Used State Jet for Campaign Activities” article.

    A new investigative report revealed that House Speaker Dade Phelan used a state jet for campaign activities.

    KHOU 11 has reported that members of the Texas House have used TxDOT’s executive-style jets for activities that crossed the line between “official state business” into personal or political business.

    According to state law, the jets cannot be used for attending “an event at which money is raised for private or political purposes.”

    When Phelan (R-Beaumont) used the jet in September 2022 to attend a speaking engagement at the leftwing Texas Tribune Festival, he didn’t stop there. He then used the jet to attend a University of Texas versus Texas Tech football game in Lubbock.

    In a statement to KHOU 11, Phelan’s office said the trip was to meet with Tech officials and paid for by university donors.

    However, campaign finance records show that he accepted a $2,500 in-kind contribution for “food and beverage for campaign event” the day he got to Lubbock. He also had an $880 charge at a hotel for “staff lodging for political fundraiser.”

    KHOU 11 estimated that he raised at least $37,522 for his campaign on the trip.

    Yeah, probably a violation, but it seems pretty smallball stuff compared to Phelan’s other shenanigans…

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    Federal Judge Slaps Down Biden Tranny Title IX Rewrite

    Wednesday, June 12th, 2024

    Another week, Texas legal victory over the Biden Administration’s radical social justice regulatory overreach.

    Attorney General Ken Paxton announced today that a federal court has vacated the controversial Title IX guidance nationwide.

    The ruling included a permanent injunction against its enforcement against Texas and its schools.

    The Biden administration’s 1,500-page rewrite of Title IX added “gender identity” as a protected class and would force K-12 schools to allow boys into girls’ facilities and activities. Schools that refused were threatened with loss of federal education funds.

    In response to the rewrite, Gov. Greg Abbott instructed the Texas Education Agency to ignore the new Title IX rule. He later directed all public universities to also ignore the rewrite.

    Meanwhile, Paxton sued to stop enforcement of the new rule.

    “Joe Biden’s unlawful effort to weaponize Title IX for his extremist agenda has been stopped in its tracks,” said Attorney General Paxton Tuesday. “Threatening to withhold education funding by forcing states to accept ‘transgender’ policies that put women in danger was plainly illegal. Texas has prevailed on behalf of the entire Nation.”

    According to the court order, “Rather than promote the equal opportunity, dignity, and respect that Title IX demands for both biological sexes, [the DOE’s] Guidance Documents do the opposite in an effort to advance an agenda wholly divorced from the text, structure, and contemporary context of Title IX. Not to mention, recipients of Title IX funding—including Texas schools—will face an impossible choice: revise policies in compliance with the Guidance Documents but in contravention of state law or face the loss of substantial funding.”

    Not to mention being divorced from basic biological reality. If the cells in a person’s body contain XX chromosomes, that person is female. If those cells contain XY chromosomes, then that person is male. No amount of legislation or regulation will ever change that basic reality, no matter how hard the party insists that you must affirm that 2+2=5.

    “Thus, to allow [the Biden Administration’s] unlawful action to stand would be to functionally rewrite Title IX in a way that shockingly transforms American education and usurps a major question from Congress,” wrote U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor. “That is not how our democratic system functions.”

    There’s more meat worth quoting in the ruling.

    Multiple Texas laws and school policies implicate the concept of sex in the educational context. The Texas Education Code prohibits school districts from allowing “a student to compete in an interscholastic athletic competition sponsored or authorized by the district or school that is designated for the biological sex opposite to the student’s biological sex.” TEX. EDUC. CODE § 33.0834. The Board of Trustees for independent school districts “have the exclusive power and duty to govern and oversee the management of the public schools of the district.” Id. § 11.151(b). Pursuant to that oversight power, Texas school districts promulgate additional policies on related issues that mirror § 33.0834. These school districts receive federal funds.

    These additional district-specific policies take various forms. For example, some Texas school districts—such as Frisco ISD, Grapevine–Colleyville ISD, and Carroll ISD—mandate that schools within their respective districts maintain separate bathrooms, locker rooms, and showers based on biological sex. These school districts also prohibit the assignment of bathrooms, locker rooms, and showers based on subjective gender identity. Consistent with the biological reality of sex, Carroll ISD precludes district employees from “requir[ing] the use of pronouns that are inconsistent with a student’s or other person’s biological sex.

    “The biological reality of sex” is precisely what the left has declared war on.

    As part of the radical left’s war against Christianity and the nuclear family, the social justice-infected Democratic party has decided to make pandering to confused and mentally ill men a higher priority than protecting actual women. Despite how deeply unpopular this anti-reality position with the American public, conservatives were initially slow to take up the fight against it, either cowed by histrionic emotional arguments (“If you deny transexualism, you’re literally forcing them to kill themselves!”) or an inability to believe that the something so brazenly absurd is real and not some sort of elaborate joke. But when the Biden Administration tries to rewrite Title IX, a law written to protect women, by executive fiat to mean the exact opposite of the statutory language in order to protect men pretending to be woman at the expense of actual women, then we have to assume that they are very serious indeed.

    Texas is fortunate to have a governor and attorney general who are not afraid to fight against the Biden Administration’s war on reality.

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