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OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt said Monday that a Texas federal judge’s action prevents the Obama administration “from holding hostage every single school district nationwide.”

U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor of Fort Worth issued a preliminary injunction barring the federal government from enforcing as regulation a “guidance” recommending schools allow transgender students to decide which restroom and locker room facilities they use. Many officials have interpreted the guidance as a threat to federal funding to districts that don’t comply.

“The executive fiat passed down by the Department of Education and Department of Justice threatened the Title IX funding that Oklahoma schools, as well as all others across the nation, depend on. The thinly veiled threat is first and foremost unlawful, as we will continue to prove in court,” said Pruitt, who is one of 13 attorneys general involved in the lawsuit.

The ruling only prevents the federal government from penalizing schools that do not adopt policies that comply with the federal guidance. It does not directly affect districts such as Tulsa Public Schools and many others that have already adopted accommodations for transgender students.