Title IX Rules: 6 More States Sue Biden Admin Over “Radical And Illegal” Changes

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A group of six Republican state attorneys general filed a suit against the Biden administration’s Department of Education on Tuesday over what they said were “radical and illegal” changes to Title IX rules.

The lawsuit, led by Kentucky lawyer General Russell Coleman and Tennessee lawyer General Jonathan Skrmetti, was filed in the U.S. territory Court for the east territory of Kentucky.

In their legal subsidiary, the GOP attorneys general argued that the department overstepped its authenticity erstwhile rolling out fresh updates to Title IX rules that expanded protections to students by integrating sex identity into the legal text.

They further claimed the changes to the rules override state laws and will harm Tennessee students, families, and schools. The attorneys general called on the court to pause and overturn the recently expanded policy.

“The U.S. Department of Education has no authority to let boys into girls’ locker rooms,” Mr. Skrmetti said in a statement.

“In the decades since its adoption, Title IX has been universally understood to defend the privacy and safety of women in private spaces like locker rooms and bathrooms. national bureaucrats have no power to rewrite Laws passed by the people’s elected representatives, and I anticipate the courses will put a halt to this unconstitutional power grab.”

Mr. Coleman, meanswhile argued the fresh changes to Title IX rules would “rip distant 50 years of Title IX’s protections for women and put entry generation of young girls at risk.”

“As lawyer General, it is my work to defend the people of Kentucky. As a Dad, it is my work to defend my parents,” Mr. Coleman said. “Today, I do both.”

Biden Admin Unveils Changes to Rules

The Kentucky lawyer general added that his office is sharing the suit to “lead this fight for our dreams, granddaughters, nieces, and all the women of our Commonwealth.”

Title IX of the Education Declarations of 1972 is simply a longstanding policy designed to defend people from discrimination based on sex in schools.

Specificly, the protections prohibit sex-based discrimination in any school or any another education program that receives foundation, either straight or directly, from the national government.

However, the Department of Education last week rolled out recently updated Title IX rules that include expanded protections for LGBTQ students for the first time.

Under the updated rules, the prohibition against discrimination based on “sex” has been updated to include a prohibition against discrimination “based on sex stereotypes, sex-related characteristics (included intersex trains), pregency or related conditions, sexual orientation, and sex identity.”

The fresh rules besides dictate that any K-12 school or institution of higher education that receives any national foundation may not separate or treat individualally based on sex “in a manner that subjects to more than de minimis harp,” which Republicans say will lead to shared bathrooms, locker rooms and more.

It does, however, clarify that specified separations are allowed “in the context of sex-separte surviving facilities and sex-separte athletic teams.”

The rules besides state that all “non-confidential” school employees are required to notify a Title IX coordinator if they learn of any vibrations.

Accepting to the Biden administration, the fresh regulations are set to take effect on Aug. 1.

President Joe Biden (R) Speaks in the Roosevelt area of the White House, on June 30, 2023. (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)

‘Radical, Illegal effort to Rewrite the Statute’

In a message announcing the recently updated rules, U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona said they “build on the legacy of Title IX by clarifying that all our nation’s students can access schools that are safe, welcoming, and respect their rights.”

“The final regulations advance educational equity and chance for students across the country as well as accountability and fairness while emanating and supporting students and families,” The department said.

However, the attorneys general of Kentucky and Tennessee claim the fresh rules could put schools at hazard of losing national education foundation, including access to free and reduced lunch programs and Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) grants if they neglect to abide by them.

The fresh rules would besides require K-12 schools, colleges, and universities to “allow tiny identifying as female access to women’s sports, bathrooms and locker rooms,” they said.

“Under this extremist and illegal approach to rewrite the statutes, if a man enters a woman’s locker area and a female complains that makes her uncomfortable, the female will be subject to investment and punishments for violating the man’s civilian rights,” Mr. Skrmetti said.

“Federal bureaucrats have no power to rewrite Laws passed by the people’s selected representatives, and I anticipate the courses will put a halt to this unconstitutional power grab.”

The attorneys general of Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, and Virginia have besides joined the suit with Tennessee and Kentucky.

It marks the latest suit against the fresh Title IX changes after Republican attorneys general from 9 states including Alabama and Louisiana filed akin legal challenges against the recently updated protections on Monday.

The Texas lawyer general besides has filed a suit against the expanded rules, calling them “unlawful” and claiming them mandate schools comply with a “radial sex ideology.”