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Federal Court Finds Biden’s Title IX Rules Unconstitutional

Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jan 9, 2025

The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky has found that the U.S. Department of Education exceeded its constitutional authority when it adopted changes to Title IX of the federal Education Amendments of 1972. The Biden administration had sought to expand the law’s prohibition of sex discrimination in education programs to LGBTQ+ students. U.S. District Judge Danny C. Reeves scrapped the entire regulation after deciding it was “fatally” tainted by legal shortcomings, the Associated Press reports. A suit against the rules was brought by Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Virginia and West Virginia. Reeves had temporarily blocked the regulations last summer. In a statement after the ruling, Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti called the decision “a nationwide win” against rules that would have “compromised girls' privacy in locker rooms and bathrooms and required teachers and administrators to use pronouns that do not align with students’ biological sex.”