The states of North Carolina and Texas are already aligning to defy President Obama's anticipated directive requiring educators to allow students to use bathrooms according to their gender identity as opposed to their gender specified on their birth certificates.

During a recent Republican state convention of GOP leaders in the country's most conservative state, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick warned Obama's decree will mark "the beginning of the end of the public school system as we know it."

Republicans United in Criticisms

During the forum, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott pledged to formally unite with North Carolina leaders in waging a legal battle with the federal government over the issue.

Just days before, Patrick called for the resignation of a Fort Worth school superintendent who endorsed policies supportive of transgender students.

As for the president's views, Patrick added, "President Obama, in the dark of the night - without consulting Congress, without consulting educators, without consulting parents - decides to issue an executive order, like this superintendent, forcing transgender policies on schools and on parents who clearly don't want it."

Port Neches-Groves (Texas) Superintendent Rodney Cavness was even more blunt in his critical assessment of the president.

"He ain't my President and he can't tell me what to do," he said. "That letter is going straight to the paper shredder. I have five daughters myself and I have 2,500 girls in my protection. Their moms and dads expect me to protect them. And that is what I am going to do. Now I don't want them bullied... but there are accommodations that can be made short of this. He is destroying the very fiber of this country. He is not a leader. He is a failure."

Immigration Among President's Biggest Social Reforms

With the president's time in office quickly ticking away, the administration seems more intent than ever to carve out a legacy of social reform on such issues as immigration, same-sex marriage and healthcare.

Currently, the Supreme Court is weighing the legal merits of the President's executive actions on immigration, which stand to shield millions of immigrants from the risk of mass deportation.

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