Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton arrives for a press conference Wednesday to announce his state's lawsuit against the White House over its transgender bathroom order. | AP Photo Texas AG on bathroom order: Men will switch from women back to men next day

The White House's directive to public school districts demanding that they allow students to use the bathroom that corresponds with their gender identity and not their gender at birth is a "solution in search of a problem," Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said Thursday.

"This guideline doesn't address any particular problem. They have not been very specific about what they're trying to solve. This opens the door with all kinds of issues with men deciding one day they want to be women and then switching back the next day," Paxton said during an interview on "Fox & Friends." "It's just — it doesn't answer any particular question."


Ten states joined Texas on Wednesday in filing a federal lawsuit against the Obama administration.

Asked by co-host Brian Kilmeade what Paxton would tell professional sports leagues who have, for example, expressed concern about a recent North Carolina law that restricts the use of private facilities by transgender individuals, the Texas attorney general seized the opportunity.

"Well, I’d just tell them to look at the law and realize that we're a constitutional republic," Paxton said. "And that we need to focus on following the law and if these groups want to change the law, they should go in and speak to their congressmen and work on changing those laws, but it shouldn't come through the White House. That’s not the constitutional job of the White House."

Kilmeade then remarked that there is "law and there's logic."

"Does there seem to be logic in this? Out of all the issues that are facing this nation, does this seem like a priority regardless of where you stand?" Kilmeade asked, eliciting an expected answer from Paxton: "Oh, absolutely not."