A Texas school district’s DEI director resigned after being recorded on hidden camera discussing ways to circumvent state law regarding transgender student athletes.
In the recording from Accuracy in Media, Hutto Independent School District Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Keyawna Glaze told an undercover journalist there were “workarounds” to Texas law requiring student athletes to compete on teams matching their birth certificate.
“You didn’t hear it from me,” Glaze said, suggesting the undercover journalist could have their child’s New Jersey birth certificate changed to reflect their preferred sex. “It didn’t happen in Texas. It happened in another state.”
Unlike Texas, states such as New Jersey allow updated documentation after birth, allowing parents to alter the sex listed on their child’s birth certificate.
When confronted by Accuracy in Media President Adam Guillette, Glaze denied her statements.
After being shown the video, Glaze said, “I let [the undercover journalist] know that what we go off of here in Texas for [University Interscholastic League] is the birth certificate. If that birth certificate says ‘male,’ if that birth certificate says ‘female,’ that’s what we go off of.”
A security officer briefly detained Guillette at the scene after Glaze’s colleague reported him for trespassing. Guillette and his team were later asked to leave, and they complied.
Following the incident, Glaze resigned from her position in the school district and took a new job, AIM reported.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton responded by sending letters to the superintendents of Hutto ISD and Richardson ISD, pledging to “investigate and hold accountable any school district or official who openly disregards Texas law protecting the integrity of women’s athletics.”
According to the press release, Richardson’s DEI director, Angie Lee, told a parent that if “their male high school student stayed overnight at a hotel on a school trip, he would be allowed to share a room with female students.”
These incidents follow another high-profile encounter in Texas.
In January, AIM released a video exposing an Irving ISD administrator for telling an undercover journalist how a transgender athlete could compete on a sports team that does not align with the student’s biological sex.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott wrote an X post calling for the administrator to be “fired on the spot” and for civil and criminal investigations into Irving ISD.
This article was originally published at www.dailysignal.com
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