Biden administration batting zero as judge blocks Title IX rewrite in another six states:
Another federal judge has blocked the Biden administration’s final rule adding “gender identity” to Title IX, extending the moratorium on the federal rewrite to another six states.
U.S. District Judge Rodney Sippel granted a preliminary injunction Wednesday preventing the revised Title IX rule from taking effect in Missouri, Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota, pending the outcome of the lawsuit. The order brings to 21 the number of states putting on legal hold the regulations set to take effect Aug. 1 across the rest of the nation.
The federal Department of Education rule unveiled in April requires education programs that receive federal money, including K-12 schools, colleges and universities, to include males who identify as female under Title IX, the 1972 civil rights law that bans sex discrimination in education.
The department has defended the update, saying it would “promote educational equity and opportunity for students across the country as well as accountability and fairness, while empowering and supporting students and families.”
“This is a huge win for women and girls across the country,” said Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, who led the latest lawsuit against the change. “The court recognized that Joe Biden’s plan to allow biological males into female spaces was not only blatantly illegal, but also a slap in the face to every woman in America.”
Judge Sippel, a Clinton appointee, said the states have “a fair chance of prevailing on their argument that the unambiguous plain language of Title IX and the legislative history support their position that the term ‘sex’ means biological sex,” as opposed to gender identity. --->READ MORE HERE
Biden’s Title IX Rules Allowing Men In Women’s Sports Blocked In 21 States: Where Things Stand:
Courts for 21 states have blocked the Biden administration’s guidelines that force public schools to allow trans-identifying males into girls’ bathrooms, locker rooms, and sports.
In addition to the rules being blocked in 21 states, dozens of K-12 schools and universities across the country have been blocked from implementing the rules, which were issued on April 19, 2024. The new rules replace previous guidance from the Trump administration, which didn’t include caveats for transgender students but did increase due process protections for students at schools receiving public funding. The Biden rules remove those due process protections.
Title IX is a federal statute that bans sex discrimination, but the Biden administration has expanded the definition to include sexual identity and gender identification. Courts across the country have determined that this expanded definition is wrong.
On June 13, U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty, a Trump appointee, issued a preliminary injunction against the Biden rules while calling them an “abuse of power” and a “threat to democracy.” His ruling blocked the new guidance from taking effect in Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Montana.
“Title IX was written and intended to protect biological women from discrimination,” Doughty wrote. “Such purpose makes it difficult to sincerely argue that, at the time of enactment, ‘discrimination on the basis of sex’ included gender identity, sex stereotypes, sexual orientation, or sex characteristics. Enacting the changes in the Final Rule would subvert the original purpose of Title IX: protecting biological females from discrimination.”
On June 17, U.S. District Judge Danny Reeves, a George W. Bush appointee, issued a preliminary injunction blocking the rules in Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. A few weeks later, on July 2, U.S. District Judge John Broomes, another Trump appointee, issued a similar ruling blocking the new Title IX rules in Alaska, Kansas, Utah, and Wyoming.
Broomes’ ruling went further, however, and included a massive list of K-12 schools and universities across the country where the rules would also be blocked. That list came from schools attended by children of the defendants in that lawsuit, Moms for Liberty, and members of the Young America’s Foundation. --->READ MORE HERE
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