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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Sep 16, 2022

Tennessee State Rep. John Ragan, R-Oak Ridge, chair of the Legislature's Joint Government Operations Committee, has been advising multiple Tennessee universities to not adopt a new Biden administration proposal to protect LGBT and transgender individuals as a protected class under Title IX. Among the schools receiving the letter was East Tennessee State University, which announced Sept. 2 that its protections would remain in place. University of Tennessee President Randy Boyd tells the Daily Beacon that nothing has changed there and he does not believe current policies break either state or federal law. Before leaving office, former Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery filed a lawsuit seeking to stop the directive. A federal judge in Knoxville blocked the policy so Ragan says it is not in force in Tennessee, Tennessee Lookout reports.