Eleven States in the U.S. have sued the Obama administration, challenging the federal guidance that transgender students can use bathrooms and other facilities of their choice.

The federal lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas. It says that the guidance issued by the Obama administration has no basis in law and could cause "seismic changes" in the operations of schools all over the nation.

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The guidance refers to a letter issued by the Justice Department and the Education Department earlier this month, prompting schools to let transgender students use the bathrooms and facilities that they are most comfortable with or they could lose federal funding. 

In the letter, the two departments cited Title IX, which says that sexual discrimination at educational facilities receiving federal funding should be prohibited. The lawsuit, however, claims that the Obama administration is imposing a new version of the federal law.

The plaintiffs named in the lawsuit are the states of Texas, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. Maine Governor Paul LePage and the Arizona Department of Education as well as two individual school districts in Arizona and Texas have also been named as plaintiffs in the lawsuit.

The complaint alleges that the Obama administration conspired to turn workplaces and educational settings into laboratories for a massive social experiment.

The issue of which bathrooms transgender individuals use has been an issue of public debate after North Carolina passed a law in March banning transgender individuals from using bathrooms in public and government buildings that is not in correspondence with their gender written on their birth certificate.

The lawsuit comes a week after Texas attorney general Ken Paxton accused the Obama administration of trying to bully Texas schools into allowing men "to have open access to girls in bathrooms." The main concern of opposing groups and bodies on the issue of transgender people being able to choose which bathroom to use is the fear of sexual predators.

President Barack Obama has not commented on the matter yet. 

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