School reacts to video of official telling parents to alter trans kid's birth certificate to play girls sports

A Texas schoolhouse territory has acknowledged footage of 1 of its administrators telling an undercover writer posing arsenic a genitor to alteration a transgender child's commencement certificate to vie successful girls sports. 

The Irving Independent School District successful Irving, Texas, has provided a connection to Fox News Digital addressing the caller video of Reny Lizardo, the enforcement manager of field operations, giving this guidance, which was obtained by Accuracy successful Media. 

The connection indicates Lizardo has resigned from his position. 

"In Irving ISD, we are committed to upholding the requirements of authorities and national laws, particularly arsenic it pertains to ensuring the information and well-being of our students, and we volition cooperate with immoderate probe initiated by applicable authorities," the connection said. 

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"We are alert of the unauthorized video footage circulating connected societal media of an idiosyncratic connected with Irving ISD. The videos were obtained nether mendacious pretenses by an idiosyncratic who posed arsenic a acrophobic genitor and further individuals who posed arsenic household friends of the worker pictured. 

"The individuals besides held themselves retired arsenic members of the media, but were not credentialed arsenic such, constituting a breach of security. In addition, the footage has been edited and is an incomplete practice of the full conversation, making it hard to decently measure its probative value."

In the footage, Lizardo said, "It’s not amerciable if you don’t get caught," with respect to changing the sex connected a child's commencement certificate, and "if you tin get that done, and you crook america a commencement certificate that says ‘this gender,’ that's the sex we spell with." 

While discussing imaginable repercussions of the discussion, Lizardo suggested pleading plausible deniability.  

The territory insists Lizardo's handling of the concern does not bespeak the values and protocols of the schoolhouse district. 

Fox News Digital has reached retired to Lizardo for comment.

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"We privation to reiterate that Irving ISD complies with each authorities and national laws, and each employees are expected to adhere to immoderate and each ineligible and ethical standards. The connection conveyed successful the video, arsenic presented, does not bespeak the views nor policies of the district," the connection said. 

"Individual employees bash not talk connected behalf of the district. The idiosyncratic identified was acting extracurricular of his relation arsenic it relates to ineligible and regulatory expertise. While the substance continues to beryllium nether investigation, the idiosyncratic identified successful the video has tendered his resignation." 

The district's connection concludes by claiming each of its athletes enactment successful the due sex category. 

"We tin besides corroborate that each Irving ISD student-athletes are participating successful their athletics successful accordance with the enactment they were assigned astatine birth," the territory said. "Irving ISD is unwavering successful our committedness to the information and well-being of each of our students and staff. We stay focused connected our superior relation to support acquisition excellence and foster the afloat imaginable of our students." 

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Texas is 1 of 25 states successful the U.S. with a instrumentality that prevents oregon restricts transgender athletes from competing against girls and women. In June 2023, the authorities passed the Save Women's Sports Act that prohibits transgender 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 Gov. Greg Abbott addressed the footage involving Lizardo successful a station connected X and called for him to beryllium fired and 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."

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