Federal judge strikes down Biden’s Title IX gender-bending rewrite in case involving Alaska
A federal judge in Kansas has blocked the Biden Administration’s new interpretation of Title IX, the landmark legislation that was written to give equal treatment to girls sports in public schools and universities.
The judge blocked the Biden interpretation, which scooped in a wide range of ill-defined gender beliefs, from going into effect in schools in Kansas, Alaska, Utah, Wyoming, as well as 10 other states. Similar rulings had been issued by district courts.
The ruling means the Biden Education Department cannot force the schools where the plaintiffs attend to allow boys to compete on girls’ sports teams or in track and field events that are separated into the two sexes — boys and girls. Boys can’t take over the medals that girls worked hard for.
The Democrat war on girls moved to a new front in April, when the Education Department finalized rules that would require schools to allow boys to use girls’ bathrooms and locker rooms. The rules were set to go into effect Aug. 1, but in the past year, several states have already created laws that stop the blending of the sexes in these private spaces where girls have previously not had to worry about boys undressing in front of them, and vice versa.
The Biden regulations also forced school staff to use a student’s preferred pronouns when speaking to them or about them. Thus, teachers would be required to refer to a boy as a “they,” if that child demanded it. The same would hold true for any other pronoun the child demanded.
Judge John W. Broomes said the department overstepped its authority when it brought in gender identity, and that even in the regulations, the Biden Administration had not clearly defined what gender identity actually is, other than a feeling.
Broomes wrote the rule would “require schools to subordinate the fears, concerns, and privacy interests of biological women to the desires of transgender biological men to shower, dress, and share restroom facilities with their female peers.”
Alaska was included in the lawsuit because it has schools attended by members of Young America’s Foundation, Female Athletes United, or children of members of the plaintiff group Moms for Liberty.