By james art 
Governor Greg Abat has called for Irving ISD criminal and civic investigations after a hidden camera video showed that the school administrator discussing transgender students playing in sports teams that are aligned with their sexual identity despite the state ban.
In the video, a woman is heard – later identified as a “undercover journal” – discusses a potential move in Texas with her transgender daughter. She asks a man identified in a record as an Irving ISD employee if her child can play in the girls’ football team.
The administrator refers to the state’s position for transsexual students, but notes that if the child’s birth certificate is changed outside the state, school employees could accept what is in the official documentation, according to the video.
“It’s not illegal if they don’t catch you,” the video employee says. “If no one knew, then we’re good.”
However, if one understands and brought a case against the area on the issue, “we would have been in difficulty,” the administrator said. But he suggested that As school staff follow what is listed in the birth certificate, administrators can say: “We didn’t know.” I guess there is a plausible negative. ”
In social media, Abbot responded to the video videos at the end of Tuesday, urging the administrator to be “fired on the spot” for both criminal and civil investigations against the school district and the official.
“Irring ISD and its employees participated in a fraudulent violation of state laws and concealment?” Abbott published. “We must get the facts.”
Andrew Mahaleris, a spokesman for the Governor’s Service, repeated the ABat’s call to be fired for investigations.
“Biological boys have no business competing against biological girls, and the Abbot government has made it clear that we should protect the integrity of the girls’ sport,” says Mahaleris in an email statement.
Irving ISD officials did not immediately respond to requests for a comment sent by email and telephone on Wednesday.
State legislation requires students in public schools to play sports teams that are in line with sex, listed in their birth certificate. In September, Texas banned transgender people from changing the sex of birth certificates to reflect their sexual identity.
The eight -minute video is recorded by Undercover Journalist and published on YouTube through media accuracy that has secretly enrolled other employees at a school and college in Texas. The group’s website notes that it uses “civil activism and investigative journalism to expose media biases, corruption and failure in public policy.”
“We have investigated over 100 school areas in Texas and what we found over and over is that these administrators are more than happy to break the law and mislead the parents … This said that what we found in Irving, in my opinion, may be It would be maybe maybe it may be the most of the moral outrageous thing we’ve seen in Texas, “said Adam Gillette, president of the group.
In recent years, the group has secretly enrolled staff in various colleges and schools in Texas, asking for efforts or programs related to diversity, justice and inclusion or critical theory of race that the state restricts in campuses.
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