A federal district judge in Texas issued a nationwide injunction Sunday blocking the administration from enforcing a federal order on transgender bathrooms in schools -— putting the transgender rights issue firmly on track for a Supreme Court showdown after a new president takes office.

The order, issued to schools nationwide in May under the guise of guidelines, instructed public schools on how to accommodate transgender students and threatened to strip schools of federal funding if they didn’t allow students to choose their restroom based on their personal gender identity.

“We, as states and counties and school districts, have the right to decide how we will conduct our business, and will not be told by Washington, D.C. what our community values must be.”

U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor sided with a Texas-led coalition of thirteen states that aimed to bar the guidelines from being implemented. The states argued that the Obama administration once again overstepped its constitutional bounds — this time with a flimsy application of Title IX.

“This case presents the difficult issue of balancing the protection of students’ rights and that of personal privacy when using school bathrooms, locker rooms, showers, and other intimate facilities, while ensuring that no student is unnecessarily marginalized while attending school,” O’Connor wrote in his decision.

O’Connor suggested the states and localities had the final right to govern their school’s bathroom choices and that the federal government was not on solid legal footing in its decision to intervene.

“The resolution of this difficult policy issue is not, however, the subject of this Order. Instead, the Constitution assigns these policy choices to the appropriate elected and appointed officials, who must follow the proper legal procedure.”

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In July, the states sought a nationwide injunction saying the “new mandates, putting the federal government in the unprecedented position of policing public school property and facilities … run roughshod over clear lines of authority, local policies, and unambiguous federal law.”

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West Virginia Republican Chairman Conrad Lucas warned of the risks that could ensue if the policy from the Obama administration was implemented.

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“Obama and his liberal friends are doing their worst to endanger our kids in their safe spaces at schools and athletic events, with this bizarre transgendered bathroom push. Obama’s initiative endangers children,” Lucas said. “We, as states and counties and school districts, have the right to decide how we will conduct our business, and will not be told by Washington, D.C., what our community values must be.”

The conflict between state’s rights and the Left’s push on transgender issues is already ripe for consideration by the Supreme Court because of a North Carolina battle with the Department of Justice. The injunction against the Department of Education’s mandate will only increase the likelihood of at least one major transgender case being heard by Justice Antonin Scalia’s replacement at the nation’s highest court.