The Thomas More Society is assuring Students and Parents for Privacy that the Obama administration lacks any federal legal backing or authority for the bathroom guidelines issued today to public schools and universities nationwide.

“These unjustified guidelines reinforce the President’s political goal of forcing women to share restrooms and locker rooms with biological men despite the unconstitutional violation of every other student's privacy,” stated Thomas More Society special counsel Jocelyn Floyd.

Floyd and other Thomas More Society attorneys are representing 51 families in the northwest suburban Palatine area in a lawsuit against two federal agencies and Township District 211 for disregarding student privacy and safety by opening girls’ locker rooms to boys.

“Forcing girls to share restrooms and locker rooms with biological males across the nation is an egregious invasion of privacy. Not only are the Obama administration’s guidelines a direct violation of their privacy rights, they also infringe on their parents’ rights. My clients don’t want Obama’s radical policies in their bathrooms – and there is no federal authority or legal justification for these guidelines,” stated Floyd.

Floyd points out that solutions exist to accommodate everyone without violating anyone’s privacy rights. However, the President’s Administration, just as the Department of Education and Palatine School District 211, is not interested in those, instead choosing to impose its political will upon students and families through threats and intimidation.

The Thomas More Society case, Students and Parents for Privacy v. United States Department of Education, was filed earlier this month in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The lawsuit asks the court to halt the school district’s policy that opens up restrooms and changing areas to the opposite sex, declaring the policy and the district’s agreement with the Department of Education to be unconstitutional and illegal under both federal and Illinois law, and invalidate the Department of Education’s rule that illegitimately redefines “sex” in Title IX.

Read the Students and Parents for Privacy v. United States Department of Education, complaint here.