Texas School DEI Director Resigns After Hidden Camera Investigation

A Texas school district’s DEI director resigned after being recorded on hidden camera discussing ways to circumvent state law regarding transgender student athletes.

In the recording from Accuracy in Media, Hutto Independent School District Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Keyawna Glaze told an undercover journalist there were “workarounds” to Texas law requiring student athletes to compete on teams matching their birth certificate.

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Unlike Texas, states such as New Jersey allow updated documentation after birth, allowing parents to alter the sex listed on their child’s birth certificate.

When confronted by Accuracy in Media President Adam Guillette, Glaze denied her statements.

After being shown the video, Glaze said, “I let [the undercover journalist] know that what we go off of here in Texas for [University Interscholastic League] is the birth certificate. If that birth certificate says ‘male,’ if that birth certificate says ‘female,’ that’s what we go off of.”

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Following the incident, Glaze resigned from her position in the school district and took a new job, AIM reported.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton responded by sending letters to the superintendents of Hutto ISD and Richardson ISD, pledging to “investigate and hold accountable any school district or official who openly disregards Texas law protecting the integrity of women’s athletics.”

According to the press release, Richardson’s DEI director, Angie Lee, told a parent that if “their male high school student stayed overnight at a hotel on a school trip, he would be allowed to share a room with female students.”

These incidents follow another high-profile encounter in Texas.

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott wrote an X post calling for the administrator to be “fired on the spot” and for civil and criminal investigations into Irving ISD.

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