A Kentucky judge on Thursday struck down the Title IX interpretation by President Joe Biden that was forcing schools to treat boys as girls and girls as boys, if the students identified as a different sex.
The ruling by the Department of Education, released last April, also required teachers to use wrong pronouns when addressing or referring to these students, who are called transgenders. Schools that refused to allow boys into girls bathrooms and locker rooms would be subject to federal financial penalties.
Biden lumped sexual orientation in with actual sexual characteristics in his new interpretation of Title IX, which was legislation designed to protect girls and young women from discrimination in athletics.
Federal District Judge Judge Danny Reeves’s ruling applies nationwide. Already, the Biden interpretation of gender had been put on hold, as nearly half the states — all run by Republican governors — are suing over it.
“The entire point of Title IX is to prevent discrimination based on sex — throwing gender identity into the mix eviscerates the statute and renders it largely meaningless,” the ruling says.
In late December, Biden quietly scrapped the new rules.
Rep. Jamie Allard of Eagle River has led the effort in the Alaska House of Representatives to clarify the rules and protect girls from having boys unfairly compete on their teams or in they leagues, but her bill wasn’t advanced in the Senate, which is controlled by Democrats.
Read the judge’s decision at this link.
The district court ruling applies nationwide and to every part of the Biden Title IX rule, meaning the rule is completely invalidated, and the U.S. Department of Education is unable to enforce it—anywhere, Alliance Defending Freedom said.
“This is a colossal win for women and girls across the country,” said ADF CEO, President, and General Counsel Kristen Waggoner. “The Biden administration’s radical attempt to redefine sex not only tossed fairness, safety, and privacy for female students out the window, it also threatened free speech and parental rights. With this ruling, the federal court in Kentucky rejected the entire Biden rule and the administration’s illegal actions. We are thankful for the leadership of Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti and other state attorneys general who challenged this blatant overreach alongside our courageous clients. This ruling provides enormous relief for students across the country, including our client who has already suffered harassment by a male student in the locker room and on her sports team. The U.S. Supreme Court can further protect girls like our client by granting cases brought by the ACLU against West Virginia and Idaho laws that protect women’s sports.”
ADF attorneys joined several states, women’s groups, athletic associations, and school boards in obtaining five injunctions that halted enforcement of the rule change in some jurisdictions as the lawsuits proceed.
Along with ADF, the states of Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, Indiana, and West Virginia sued in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky, which ruled the Biden administration rule change exceeded authority and was “arbitrary and capricious agency action.”
“Whattt, common sense? What will this world come to? Biden is a perv! He showered with a child!”
It’s just a distraction! He wants everyone to look over here while he’s stealing money from over there. Let’s make America great again!
Agreed. Same as LA fires look left and the libs attack from the right. Smoke and mirrors people.
While I agree that is a “magic trick” to distract the masses, Biden’s Title Nine interpretation is a serious issue that should be dealt with along with everything else that has been going on.
Disappointed AK is not adjoining these lawsuits.
Weak Republicans and Rino’s are destroying Alaska.
Why is there not one politician screaming about a murderer who should have had a life sentence but only got 40 years, released in 12 years, and goes out shoots up the town again.
Someone please ask for an investigation,after all this person was Tobin’s poster child.
Amen! (and I’m an atheist.. go figure)
As an early teen trying to find an equilibrium, I thought, what would happen if stupid people were allowed to fall into leadership positions. I thought the Constitution would protect us and they would quickly be shunned. I learned about socialism and the communist party. Yikes! The unlikely has happened. The arrogant few who are the least capable and lack rationality are reversing the goodness of humanity. We are embarrassed. Forgive them for they know not how stupid they are.
Everyone in the world should be memorizing the snake poem. The evil elites along with their minions are destroying humanity. Every organization has been infiltrated including non-government agencies with unelected leaders. Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me!
In the upcoming selections (oops fraud-ian slip or Freudian slip), it is time to do independent research and evaluate politicians by their spoiled fruits. RINOs and Democrats that are jumping off the o-Biden/kabala Harris ship, should be rounded up, arrested, tried and sent to prison. Wokeism with transgender, DEI, ESG, forever wars, poverty, poisonous food, poisonous water, climate change hoax and other corrupt programs must go.
It is time for We the People to take back our government. If you aren’t with We the People then you are against We the People. Hold politicians accountable for their deeds.
I don’t know about everyone else, but I sense us serfs have had enough. Wake up and throw off tyranny by liberals/elites and RINOS including Lisa Murkowski, Anchorage Assembly and the rest of the cronies.
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