The federal judge who blocked the Obama administration’s transgender bathroom mandate has given Texas until Nov. 15 to respond to the U.S. Department of Justice’s request for a partial stay.

The DOJ seeks the stay to limit the temporary injunction entered by U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor to the 13 plaintiff states that opposed the policy allowing transgender students to use bathrooms designated for their self-defined gender: Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah, West Virginia and Wisconsin. O’Connor, of the Northern District of Texas, ruled in August to stop the mandate from taking effect nationwide.

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