Administrators from two Texas school districts are facing accusations from an investigative journalism advocacy group of allegedly working to circumvent Texas’s Save Women’s Sports Act.
Accuracy in Media President Adam Guillette showed up to both Richardson and Dallas Independent school districts Wednesday to confront administrators for seeking to help parents get their biological male children to play on female sports teams.
In 2021, Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) signed into law the Save Women in Sports Act, which banned biological males from competing in female sports in Texas public schools.
Guillette set up mobile billboards outside both school district headquarters, which played undercover footage taken in closed-door meetings with school administrators. Guillette said the videos, which have not been reviewed by the Washington Examiner, haven’t been released publicly yet in an effort to catch school administrators in the videos off guard.
Guillette first went to confront Dallas Independent School District’s Special Populations and Community advocate Mahoganie Gaston on Wednesday morning. Guilette said Gaston coached undercover reporters on how to get a hypothetical transgender child with a history of injuring female athletes to be allowed to participate in female sports.
“She slammed the door in my face,” Guillette told the Washington Examiner. “I didn’t get to chat with her very long.”
In the afternoon, Guilette made a visit to Richardson Independent School District to confront Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Director Erika Lee with footage of her telling reporters that a biological boy could share a room with girls on a school trip if they received permission from parents.
Tim Clark, executive director of communications of Richardson Independent School District, did not comment directly on the accusations waged against Lee.
“RISD follows Texas law, including the UIL requirement that student athletes must compete according to the gender on their original birth certificate,” Clark said in an email to the Washington Examiner. “The district is not aware of any instance where this requirement was not followed, nor of any RISD-specific information suggesting the requirement should not be followed.”
Guilette and Accuracy in Media have been involved in several undercover investigations of Texas public schools and universities breaking laws against DEI practices.
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“We’ve now investigated well over a hundred school districts in Texas and consistently find that these administrators break laws prohibiting critical race theory and circumvent laws related to boys and girls sports,” Guilette said. “The only solution is school choice, where the money follows the child and the law clearly means nothing to these radicals.”
The Washington Examiner reached out to Lee, Gaston, and Dallas Independent School Districts for comment.
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