School official appears to advise parents of trans athletes to change birth certificate to play girls' sports

A schoolhouse territory head in Texas was seen encouraging parents to marque mendacious changes to their child's commencement certificate truthful they would suffice to play successful girls' sports arsenic a biologic male, according to a precocious released video. 

The footage shows a man, allegedly Reny Lizardo, who serves arsenic the enforcement manager of field operations for the Irving Independent School District, telling an undercover writer that "It’s not amerciable if you don’t get caught" successful respect to doctoring a child's commencement certificate to undermine Texas authorities instrumentality that prevents trans athletes from competing successful girls' sports. 

"Could you legally alteration the sex connected a commencement certificate? I don't cognize capable astir that subject," helium says, according to video obtained by Accuracy successful Media. "If you tin get that done, and you crook america a commencement certificate that says ‘this gender,’ that's the sex we spell with."

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When asked if a hypothetical trans jock had the sex connected a commencement certificate changed to pistillate and would beryllium capable to past play connected the girls' shot team, the antheral allegedly identified arsenic Lizardo responds, "Yeah." He besides says the schoolhouse territory could plead plausible deniability if the athlete's commencement sex was uncovered and prompted a lawsuit. 

"If a genitor recovered retired oregon a pupil recovered retired and said, ‘Wait a second. This idiosyncratic isn’t this gender,’ and they, like, sued the district, we’d beryllium successful trouble. But, we tin besides say, 'We didn’t know' ... So, there’s a plausible deniability, I guess," helium is seen saying earlier suggesting their speech not beryllium spoken astir again. 

"Me and you ne'er had this conversation."

In June 2023, Texas passed the Save Women's Sports Act that bans trans athletes from competing successful girls' and women's sports, and lone allows students to vie successful the sex class listed connected their commencement certificate. The instrumentality lone allows schools to admit changes made to commencement certificates that were made to close a clerical error.

Texas is 1 of 25 states successful the U.S. to person a instrumentality successful spot to forestall oregon restrict trans athletes from competing against girls and women, and a nationalist measure is presently making its mode done Congress. 

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott addressed the footage involving Lizardo successful a station connected X, and called for him to beryllium fired and criminally investigated. 

"This Irving ISD Administrator should beryllium fired connected the spot. Both transgression & civilian investigations indispensable beryllium taken against some the Administrator & Irving ISD," Abbott wrote. "Has Irving ISD and its employees been progressive successful a fraudulent breach of authorities laws & a screen up? We indispensable get the facts."

Fox News Digital has reached retired to the Irving Independent School District for comment. 

The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Protection of Women and Girls successful Sports Act connected Jan. 14, which would chopped national backing for immoderate nationalist acquisition instauration that allows trans athletes to vie against girls and women successful sports.

Every Republican typical voted successful favour of the bill, but lone 2 Democrats, Reps. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, and Vicente Gonzales, D-Texas, voted to walk it. The remaining 206 House Democrats all voted against. Rep. Don Davis, D-N.C., voted "present."

A caller New York Times/Ipsos survey recovered the immense bulk of Americans, including a bulk of Democrats, don't deliberation transgender athletes should beryllium permitted to vie successful women's sports. Of the 2,128 radical polled, 79% said biologic males who place arsenic women should not beryllium allowed to enactment successful women's sports. Of the 1,025 radical who identified arsenic Democrat oregon leaning Democrat, 67% said transgender athletes should not beryllium allowed to vie with women.

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