RIGHT SPEAK: Supreme Court Keeps New Rules About Sex Discrimination in Education On Hold in Half the Country; SCOTUS Rejects Biden’s Title IX Regulations in States Where Governors Oppose; SCOTUS Strikes Down Biden-Harris Title IX Change That Some Argued Would Allow Men in Women's Sports

Supreme Court keeps new rules about sex discrimination in education on hold in half the country:

The Supreme Court on Friday kept on hold in roughly half the country new regulations about sex discrimination in education, rejecting a Biden administration request.

The court voted 5-4, with conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch joining the three liberal justices in dissent.

At issue were protections for pregnant students and students who are parents, and the procedures schools must use in responding to sexual misconduct complaints.

The most noteworthy of the new regulations, involving protections for transgender students, were not part of the administration’s plea to the high court.

They too remain blocked in 25 states and hundreds of individual colleges and schools across the country because of lower court orders.

The cases will continue in those courts.

The rules took effect elsewhere in U.S. schools and colleges on Aug. 1.

The rights of transgender people — and especially young people — have become a major political battleground in recent years as trans visibility has increased.

Most Republican-controlled states have banned gender-affirming health care for transgender minors, and several have adopted policies limiting which school bathrooms trans people can use and barring trans girls from some sports competitions. --->READ MORE HERE

Supreme Court rejects Biden’s Title IX regulations in states where governors oppose:

The Supreme Court denied the application of President Joe Biden’s new Title IX sex discrimination and education regulations in states where courts blocked them in a 5-4 decision Friday.

Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch joined the three progressives on the court in dissenting.

The Biden administration requested the nation’s top court enforce parts of a new federal rule meant to protect LGBT and pregnant students from discrimination in 10 states where the rule was put on hold by federal judges.

All justices agreed the disputed changes, including the new definition of “sex discrimination” to include “gender identity” and the restrictions on same-sex spaces, could remain blocked.

“All Members of the Court today accept that the plaintiffs were entitled to preliminary injunctive relief as to three provisions of the rule, including the central provision that newly defines sex discrimination to include discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity,” the Supreme Court said in its unsigned opinion.