U.S. District Judge Danny C. Reeves said that the new Title IX rules also have serious First Amendment implications because they compel speech from educators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
AKentucky federal judge issued a preliminary injunction against the Biden administration\u2019s Title IX overhaul on Kentucky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The injunction comes in a case filed by Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana, Ohio, Virginia and West Virginia and comes less than a week after a federal judge in Louisiana issued a similar ruling<\/u><\/a> in a case filed by Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana and Idaho.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Kentucky preliminary injunction only impacts the six states that were part of the lawsuit, along with the Christian Educators Association International.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The new rules finalized by the Department of Education and which are supposed to go into effect Aug. 1 expand the definition of sex discrimination to include gender identity and pregnancy, but the agency didn’t issue any rules relating to transgender athletes. Among the changes include a prohibition on single-sex bathrooms and locker rooms and requirements that a school use pronouns based on a student’s preferred gender identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAt bottom, the Department would turn Title IX on its head by redefining \u2018sex\u2019 to include \u2018gender identity,\u2019\u201d the Kentucky order said<\/u><\/a>. \u201cBut \u2018sex\u2019 and \u2018gender identity\u2019 do not mean the same thing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAs a parent and as attorney general, I joined this effort to protect our women and girls from harm,” Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman said. “Today\u2019s ruling recognized the 50-plus years of educational opportunities Title IX has created for students and athletes.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n U.S. District Judge Danny C. Reeves said that the new Title IX rules also have serious First Amendment implications because they compel speech from educators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis is a big victory for women and girls because the Title IX revisions being pushed by the Biden administration would have ended sex-based protections for biological women in locker rooms, bathrooms, sports and elsewhere, plain and simple,\u201d West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey said. \u201cThis is a retreat from the progress women have made.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n