A federal judge in Alabama on Tuesday refused to block President Joe Biden’s proposed changes to Title IX that would expand protections to include gender identity, in stark contrast to rulings by six other courts across the nation.
U.S. District Judge Ann Marie Ackson, appointed by President Trump was denied The preliminary injunction, requested by four southern states, seeks to block the implementation of new Title IX rules that take effect Thursday and would introduce federal protections against discrimination against LGBT students based on “gender identity” — rules that are already blocked in 21 states and are the subject of 10 separate ongoing lawsuits involving more than half of the U.S. according to To NBC News.
“Plaintiffs have ‘clearly’ failed to show that they are entitled to the ‘extraordinary and sweeping relief’ of a preliminary injunction,” the judge wrote in his 122-page decision. “While plaintiffs may dislike the Department’s rules, they have failed to show a substantial likelihood of showing that the Department’s rulemaking is unreasonable or cannot be reasonably explained under the APA’s arbitrary or capricious standard.” (Exclusive: Republican state lawmakers introduce bills to counter Biden’s Title IX rewrite)
U.S. President Joe Biden addresses attendees commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library in Austin, Texas, July 29, 2024. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
The lawsuit, filed in May by representatives of Alabama, Florida, Georgia and South Carolina against the U.S. Department of Education and the Secretary of Education for the Northern District of Alabama, alleges that the Biden administration overstepped its authority and violated the Administrative Procedure Act in redefining federal law. request The preliminary injunction states that enforcement of the rule would “cause immediate and irreparable harm to students, the state and the school.”
Biden introduced the rule change through an executive order in January 2021. release The final rules were published in April but quickly faced legal challenges, with opponents arguing that stating that there are only two genders or that individuals cannot change their gender is considered harassment. according to Another lawsuit challenges the rule.
The U.S. Department of Education and legal counsel for the plaintiffs did not immediately respond to requests for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.
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