Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Scumetti announced Tuesday that he is leading six states in suing the Department of Education (ED) for its review of Title IX of the Education Reform Act.
The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky, according to court documents.
of Biden administration announced new rules aimed at protecting LGBTQ+ students and changing the way sexual harassment and assault claims are adjudicated on campus.
Mr. Scumetti is targeting new provisions that are part of the revised Title IX regulations issued by the ED to fulfill President Biden’s campaign promise to revise rules enacted during the Trump administration.
Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Scumetti announced Tuesday that he is leading six states in suing the Department of Education (ED) for its review of Title IX of the Education Reform Act. (Photographer: Jacqueline Martin/AP/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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“The U.S. Department of Education does not have the authority to put boys in girls’ locker rooms,” Tennessee Attorney General Scumetti said in a statement.
“In the decades since its enactment, Title IX has been widely understood to protect women’s privacy and safety in private spaces such as locker rooms and bathrooms. And under the illegal effort, if a man enters a woman’s locker room and the woman complains that she was made uncomfortable, she will be subject to investigation and penalties for violating the man’s civil rights. “This is an unconstitutional power grab.”
But the new rules lack a policy that would prohibit schools from enacting outright bans on transgender athletes competing against biological women.
Under the new rules, sex discrimination includes discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation. The regulations state that schools cannot differentiate or treat people differently based on their gender except in limited circumstances, and critics say the change will allow locker rooms and restrooms to identify gender identity. It is claimed that installation based on the .
The Department of Education has announced new rules aimed at protecting LGBTQ+ students and changing the way sexual harassment and assault claims are adjudicated on campus. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)
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LGBTQ+ students who face discrimination are entitled to a response from their school under Title IX, and students who are rejected by their school can seek redress from the federal government.
The Department of Education sent a statement to Fox News Digital saying it “does not comment on pending litigation.”
“To give full effect to Title IX’s legal guarantee that no one will experience sex discrimination in federally funded education, the Department went through a rigorous process to develop the Title IX final regulations,” the statement said. It’s in the text.
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LGBTQ+ students who face discrimination are entitled to a response from their school under Title IX, and students who are rejected by their school can seek redress from the federal government. (St. Petersburg)
“As a condition of receiving federal funding, all federally funded schools are required to comply with these final regulations, and to ensure that the Title IX guarantee of nondiscrimination in schools is experienced by all students, We look forward to working with the school community.” ”
FOX News’ Michael Dorgan contributed to this report.
