Gwen Graham, a former one-term congresswoman who oversaw the implementation of transgender bathroom school policies and the dismantlement of school choice initiatives under President Joe Biden, has been announced as the running mate for Florida Democrat gubernatorial candidate David Jolly. Graham, who previously ran for Florida’s governor’s mansion in 2018, and served as Assistant Secretary for Legislation and Congressional Affairs at Biden’s U.S. Department of Education, said she wants to make public education a central issue in the Jolly-Graham campaign for governor. When she was appointed to that position in the previous administration, former Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said “no one is better equipped” to serve in the role. However, when in office, Graham oversaw policies such as the implementation of protections for transgender students to be able to use their bathroom of choice, in addition to the usage of pronouns. The policies took effect on August 1 of 2024, as part of a bid by the Biden administration to “extend protections to LGBTQ students.” Policies like these, which were reimplemented by Graham’s DOE after President Donald Trump rolled back an Obama-era initiative, have resulted in lawsuits from traumatized school children who feel unsafe sharing bathrooms with the opposite sex. As reported by The College Fix, a Philadelphia High School student was told to tolerate individuals of the opposite biological sex who identify as a different gender in private areas, such as bathrooms. “The girls’ bathroom had always been the girls’ getaway place—a place for privacy, mostly, but also a little refuge—a place to get away from boys, maybe talk about boys, but not meet boys,” the student wrote in an op-ed reported on by The College Fix. “I do have trouble with a policy that says anyone who’s in an opposite-sex mood today can stroll in and observe me in my intimate moments—and with school officials who value the feelings of a few students more than the dignity and privacy of all those in their care,” she continued. That student joined an already existing lawsuit over a similar incident against the Bayertown Area School District for damages, The College Fix noted. “As a member of Joe Biden’s education regime, Gwen Graham tried to destroy school choice and fought to let boys in girls’ sports and girls’ bathrooms,” Byron Donalds for Governor Communications Director Gates McGavick told the Daily Signal. “The Jolly-Graham ticket’s extremism on education is a clear example of their disconnect with Florida voters.”  Graham has also been a staunch opponent of school choice initiatives, a policy that the state of Florida has long embraced. In Florida, according to the James Madison Institute, a Florida-based think tank that has long advocated for parents’ right to choose their children’s education, over 51% of Florida’s children go to a school outside of their assigned school district. As noted by the James Madison Institute, the organization’s initiative titled the A+ Plan, a school choice initiative championed by the state of Florida, “proved to be an extraordinary success. It transformed K-12 education in our state and turned Florida into a national leader in student outcomes.” “Gwen Graham was a very loyal soldier in Joe Biden’s administration, where her central crusade at the Biden Department of Education was forcing public schools to allow men in girls’ sports and locker rooms,” the Donalds campaign said in a statement. “Graham also tried to annihilate school choice every chance she got,” the campaign added. Graham’s campaign did not respond to the Daily Signal’s request for comment.