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!
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.