While Fentanyl Kills Thousands, Paxton Investigates a Teen’s Bathroom Use

On March 6, Ken Paxton launched an investigation of Austin ISD based on a single tip-line complaint from a conservative group, alleging a student at Austin High School used the wrong bathroom. That’s not law enforcement. It’s a targeted attack on a teenager. Texas has the highest uninsured rate in the nation at 18 percent. Fentanyl killed over 3,000 Texans in 2023. Human trafficking prosecutions have dropped two years running. Families who lost children in last July’s Camp Mystic flood are still waiting for answers from state leadership. When attorneys general across the country actually do their jobs, they recover billions for states through consumer protection suits, force pharmaceutical companies to fund addiction treatment, and build trafficking prosecutions that result in convictions. That work saves lives. Investigating which bathroom a teenager used doesn’t save anyone. It scars a child and wastes public resources to generate a press release. I’m asking you to say that publicly and on the record. Demand a full accounting of what these politically motivated investigations cost compared to what the AG’s office has spent on crimes that are killing Texans. Texas deserves an attorney general who measures success by lives protected, not by how many vulnerable kids he can make an example of.