Judge blocks Biden’s transgender student protections in 6 more states

[Lori Dee]

Judge blocks Biden's transgender student protections in 6 more states
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The Hill - Brooke Migdon - 06/17/24 3:13 PM ET

A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked a Biden administration rule expanding federal nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ students.

The decision by U.S. District Judge Danny C. Reeves halts enforcement of changes to Title IX — the federal civil rights law preventing sex discrimination in schools and education programs that receive government funding — that were finalized in April by the Education Department in Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia.

The new rule, which covers discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity for the first time, had been set to take effect later this summer.

His ruling comes days after another federal judge temporarily blocked the administration's rule from taking effect in Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi and Montana, after the states sued the Biden administration in April. Lawsuits challenging the rule in more than a dozen other Republican-controlled states are still pending.

In a statement to The Hill, an Education Department spokesperson said the department is reviewing Monday's ruling in Kentucky and the Thursday ruling in Louisiana preventing the administration's new rule from taking effect.

Although Title IX is a federal law, each administration takes a different approach to enforcing its regulations ...

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