Posted on 07/29/2022 8:09:15 AM PDT by george76
A federal judge in Tennessee temporarily blocked the Biden administration’s new Title IX proposal that would extend protection to transgender students.
The proposal, first leaked in April, has received immense backlash from state attorneys general.
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Charles Atchley Jr., a federal judge in Tennessee, is pausing the Department of Education’s (DOEd) new Title IX regulations after 20 state attorneys general file a lawsuit against the Department, alleging that the new rules violate states' rights.
New Title IX regulations were published by the DOEd on June 23, marking the 50th anniversary of the landmark regulation, which prohibits federally funded institutions from discriminating on the basis of sex.
The June 23 updates expand the scope of Title IX to include gender identity and sexual orientation.
“The Department...proposes that the current regulations should be amended to provide greater clarity regarding the scope of sex discrimination, including recipients’ obligations not to discriminate based on sex stereotypes, sex characteristics, pregnancy or related conditions, sexual orientation, and gender identity,” the unofficial draft of the updates reads.
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The lawsuit is led by Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery and joined by 19 other states including South Carolina, Alaska, and Louisiana.
South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson said in an official press release that Biden’s DOEd is putting states in an “impossible situation.”
“Our state passed a new law called the Save Women’s Sports Act and if we followed state law we would face legal consequences, including the threat of losing federal funding,” Wilson said.
“The federal government cannot hold South Carolina hostage for passing its common sense laws and for not following the federal government’s nonsensical policies.”
Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor told Campus Reform that the administration went “too far” in its Title IX interpretation and accused the executive branch of overstepping its boundaries to “enjoin sovereign states from enforcing their own laws.”
“We look forward to continuing this litigation and ensuring that the law-making authority remains with Congress and not unelected federal bureaucrats,” Taylor said.
Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry concurred that the Biden administration infringed on state rights to “redefine sex,” and was quoted in an email to Campus Reform as saying he was “proud to have helped thwart yet another of Joe Biden’s radical overreaches.”
In his injunction, Judge Atchley emphasized that the new Title IX proposal "directly interferes with and threatens Plaintiff States’ ability to continue enforcing their state laws."
Due to Judge Atchley’s ruling, states are free to bar biological men from competing in women’s athletics.
The DOEd requested the lawsuit be dismissed, but Atchley denied the request.
Atchley wrote in the injunction, “as it currently stands, plaintiffs must choose between the threat of legal consequences — enforcement action, civil penalties, and the withholding of federal funding — or altering their state laws to ensure compliance with the guidance and avoid such adverse action."
A DOEd Spokesperson provided Campus Reform with the following statement:
“We are disappointed in this decision, but we remain committed to protecting students and school communities from discrimination and will continue to do so to deliver on the promise of Title IX. The Department of Justice will continue to litigate this matter on our behalf.”
Campus Reform contacted each state AG and the DOEd for comment. This article will be updated accordingly.
By “protected”, the left mean “given special privileges that ordinary are citizens don’t have”
We have got to reestablish State’s Rights and contain Federal expansion.
The problem is...States were blackmailed with funding for just about everything. How the hell did we wind up with FEDERAL school lunches??...mandatory speed limits in states...all kinds of taxes on everything...utilities, gas, etc etc..
We need to go back to the original intent.
Good! I say no protection for sensitive liberal feelings. When life is so easy you have to make up outrageous maladies to justify victimization, you just might be a snowflake.
Finally, some sanity, at least temporarily.
Legislators in at least 19 states including Montana, Idaho, Utah, and Arizona have enacted regulations barring biological men from competing in female divisions.
Ten days following Pennsylvania Governor Wolf’s veto, the Hempfield School District in Lancaster County approved their own version of the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act.
https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=19870
The GOP should be running ads saying the rats are willing to starve kids if the schools don’t shove the LBGT BS down their throats. That is, they threatening the school lunch funding.
That this country’s history, morals, traditions and beliefs have to be constantly bombarded by those leftists who ‘support’ such a pitifully small percentage outlier of an already-fringe group of homosexuals (miniscule if you actually get them to line up and count out) is nothing but pandering meant to destroy America as America is/was, period.
They have no ‘rights’ when their ilk’s goals are to groom and corrupt our young.
"sex stereotypes" What's that suppose to mean?
"sex characteristics". That's not difficult and no need for federal definition/intervention. Pull down your pants and take a look.
"pregnancy or related conditions". I guess if a pregnant woman wants to compete that's OK, but I'm opposed to giving her a 50- yard head start in the 100-yard dash.
"sexual orientation". "Sexual preference" is the truthful term.
"gender identity,” Again, not difficult, pull down your pants and take a look.
Title 9 prohibits discrimination by sex. Today there is no definition of woman, nor of man, so there is no definition of sex m/f. So the law is invalid.
“How did we wind up with…”
The creed is greed.
The newest Supreme Court justice is a female, but announced under oath that she did not know what a woman was.
I agree completely. The rats ran ads that said “the Republicans want to shove granny in a wheelchair off the cliffs” during the health care debacle, and that really hurt the Republicans who didn’t really fight back. We should be using the same tactic like running ads like you suggest agaisnt the dems, only in this case it’s true- they do want to starve kids - they are blackmailing schools to accept abominable sinful lifestyles and agendas.
best news of the day
First I’ve heard of this
Well "lady" since you may have filed a frivolous suit, we'll tell you "what you are".
Now we're going to have to do a little blood test.
Nope, but they have the power. we have stood by and watched as they have done this and said very little to nothing. Child protective services owns you children, you only have to feed and maintain them until the state takes possession.(Not as far fetched as you might think, it is coming.)
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