A day after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott demanded criminal and civil investigations into the Irving Independent School District, an administrator resigned Wednesday amid the uproar over his comments about circumventing a state law regarding transgender athletes.
“This Irving ISD Administrator should be fired on the spot,” Abbott wrote on X after an undercover video appeared to show the administrator discussing ways to get around a 2022 state law.
The video, produced by the conservative watchdog group Accuracy in Media, shows Irving ISD’s director of campus operations, Reny Lizardo, discussing how a transgender athlete could compete on a sports team that does not align with the student’s biological sex. Texas law requires student athletes to compete on teams that correspond with the sex listed on their birth certificate.
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