Dallas ISD Settles with Texas AG Paxton Over Transgender Sports

Dallas ISD and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton have entered into an agreed order to ensure that transgender teens are not participating in girls’ sports, the AG’s office announced Friday (April 11).

In February, Paxton requested records from Dallas ISD related to evidence, including a hidden camera video, that the district had — in violation of state law — implemented an unwritten policy of encouraging male students to alter their birth certificates to play in girls’ sports. 

After Paxton moved to conduct depositions on key Dallas ISD officials, the district chose to enter into an agreed order to address the concerns raised following the release of the video.

Additionally, Dallas ISD LGBT Youth Program Coordinator Mahoganie Gaston — who was reportedly secretly filmed telling a parent that a male student would be allowed to participate in girls’ sports and that the District “find[s] the loopholes in everything” — resigned amid an internal investigation by DISD prompted by Paxton’s records request.

Read the agreed order here.