A federal judge blocked the Obama administration from enforcing new guidelines intended to expand restroom access for transgender students. The judge said the government had not complied with federal law when it issued the new directives. The Obama administration had argued the new rules reflected how it interpreted existing sex-discrimination protections and threatened to cut off federal funding from noncompliant school districts. Meanwhile Texas, four other Republican-led states, along with the Christian Medical and Dental Association, and a network of religious hospitals called the Franciscan Alliance have filed another lawsuit against the government. They’re asking the same court to block new regulations intended to ban discrimination by doctors, hospitals and insurers against transgender people.