(Texas Scorecard) – A newly released investigation has uncovered that a Dallas-area school district may be allowing biological boys to room with girls on school field trips.
The investigation by Accuracy in Media shows Richardson ISD’s Executive Director of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Angie Lee advising an undercover journalist on the district’s policy on biological boys staying with girls.
When asked whether a gender-confused boy would be able to stay with the girls if he were to travel with the school, Lee said it’s a “case-by-case” scenario. She did reveal, however, that there have been instances in which a biological boy has stayed with girls.
“It’s case-by-case. But I think that there’s been times when that has been worked out,” Lee said. “I’m just going on the cases I know about … but the other students who were in the room, they were all friends, and so they knew and the parents were okay with it.”
Lee also told the undercover journalist that some parents who don’t have full custody of their children don’t have to sign off on allowing a boy to room with girls.
“Sometimes you have one parent who is against it, but then that parent, it depends on the custodial agreement, too. Like, you know, is it joint custody or is this is the custodial parent with all the education rights,” Lee explained.
The video caught Lee saying that the school district has seen it all, and “at the end of the day, we haven’t ended up on the news.”
AIM President Adam Guillette told Texas Scorecard that he’s done more than 100 investigations into school districts in Texas and that it’s clear that “these radicals will not let any law stand in the way of them pushing their extremist ideas onto your children.”
“You can pass whatever you want—banning DEI, or banning biological boys in girls’ sports. These radicals will ignore the law. You can elect good school board members, but they’re part-timers, and these folks are full-time professionals,” said Guillette. “The only solution to this problem is universal school choice. And at this point, any politician that stands against universal school choice is standing with these radicals.”
Tim Clark, Richardson ISD’s executive director of communications, told Texas Scorecard, “RISD closely follows Texas law, including the UIL requirement that student athletes must compete according to the gender on their original birth certificate. The district is not aware of any instance where this requirement was not followed, nor of any RISD-specific information suggesting the requirement should not be followed.”
He added that there has been no complaint of violating Texas law or UIL requirements.
Regarding students of the opposite biological sex sharing a room, Clark wrote that “standard practice for overnight student field trips is that only students of the same biological gender share rooms.”
However, he further explained that an exception to this practice can be requested by a parent. “If a parent of an enrolled student requests an exception to RISD’s standard practice, RISD will meet with the requesting parent to obtain additional information. For an exception to be granted, the knowledge and consent of all parents and students who would be impacted is required, or an exception would not be granted.”