Southeast Texas Register reports on AIM’s Irving investigation

January 30, 2025

By Accuracy In Media

A video shows a former Texas local school administrator apparently advising an undercover journalist on how to bypass the Save Women’s Sports Act by having a birth certificate altered before moving to the state.

Accuracy in Media released the video January 28 showing Reny Lizardo, executive director of Campus operations for the Irving Independent School District, telling the journalist if the gender on a child’s birth certificate is changed before moving to Texas, the child can play on the sports team of their choosing.

Under the 2023 law, Texas does not permit birth certificates to be altered. But other states do. The Texas law, signed by Gov. Greg Abbott, says a student must play on the team that corresponds with the gender listed on the student’s birth certificate.

Last year, Accuracy in Media says it sent undercover journalists posing as parents to several Texas school districts to determine whether administrators were complying with the law.

“It’s not illegal if you don’t get caught,” Lizardo says in the video.

Continue reading here at the Southeast Texas Register.

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