In a move that has drawn praise from parental rights advocates and champions for girls’ sports, a federal district court in Kentucky issued a fatal blow to the Biden administration’s attempt to force all U.S. public schools into embracing and advancing radical transgender ideology.
The Jan. 9 decision in State of Tennessee v. Cardona blocks the Biden administration’s unlawful attempt to change the meaning of “sex” to “gender identity” in Title IX – a 1972 federal law that was specifically designed to create equal opportunities for women in education and athletics.
Alaska had been exempted from the unconstitutional overreach thanks to a separate court ruling last summer which temporarily blocked the law in several states. The latest ruling, however, block’s the novel interpretation of Tite IX nationwide.
While the national ruling provides vital relief for students across the country, residents of Alaska still need to be vigilant as many local school districts are continuing to advance the transgender agenda on smaller, regional levels.
By attempting to add LGBTQ identities as protected classes, the Biden administration’s goal was to pressure schools that recieve federal education dollars into affirming this controversial agenda across all educational programs, hiring practices, sports and other areas of school culture like bathroom policies and pronoun uses.
Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys represent a West Virginia high-school female athlete and Christian Educators Association International in the lawsuit alongside the state of Tennessee. The district court ruling applies nationwide and to every part of the Biden Title IX rule, meaning the rule is completely invalidated, and the U.S. Department of Education is unable to enforce it – anywhere.
“This is a colossal win for women and girls across the country,” said ADF CEO, President, and General Counsel Kristen Waggoner. “The Biden administration’s radical attempt to redefine sex not only tossed fairness, safety, and privacy for female students out the window, it also threatened free speech and parental rights. With this ruling, the federal court in Kentucky rejected the entire Biden rule and the administration’s illegal actions.”
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While the national ruling provides vital relief for students across the country, residents of Alaska still need to be vigilant as many local school districts are continuing to advance the transgender agenda on smaller, regional levels.
Nationally, the U.S. Supreme Court can further protect girls by granting to hear cases brought by the ACLU against West Virginia and Idaho laws that protect women’s sports.
The athlete client that ADF represented is a 15-year-old West Virginia girl who was forced to compete against a biological male on her middle school track team. The male beat her several times, even taking away her spot to compete in a conference championship. The male athlete was also given access to the girls’ locker room, and the ADF client had to endure vulgar, sexual comments that the athlete directed at her. The male athlete finished ahead of nearly 300 female competitors in three years of competition on the girls’ team. That same male athlete is the plaintiff in the West Virginia case, now pending at the Supreme Court, which resulted in a ruling undermining West Virginia’s law protecting women’s sports.
