The issue focused on how to handle the "unexpected" change in U.S. law that requires transgender people in public school to use bathrooms that correspond to their gender identity, rather than their birth certificates and legal gender marker (the name, sex, and legal gender marker) that match the sex listed on their birth certificates.

In an effort to comply with the U.S. Department of Justice's directive, the Texas School Board passed a new ordinance this week that prohibits transgender students from using bathrooms that