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More Republican states challenge new Title IX rules protecting LGBTQ+ students

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/more-republican-states-challenge-new-title-ix-rules-protecting-lgbtq-students/ar-AA1nWoGP?ocid=windirect&cvid=a008b37c8ff54c6cb7471a40ca48f76f&ei=11

Story by COLLIN BINKLEY (30 April 2024)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Another six Republican states are piling on to challenge the Biden administration's newly expanded campus sexual assault rules, saying they overstep the president's authority and undermine the Title IX anti-discrimination law.

A federal lawsuit led by Kentucky on Tuesday asks a judge to halt and overturn the new policy. The suit is joined by Ohio, Indiana, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia. It follows other legal challenges filed by Monday by nine other states including Alabama, Louisiana and Texas.

The lawsuits are the first to challenge the administration's new Title IX rules, which expand protections to LGBTQ+ students and add new safeguards for victims of sexual assault. The policy was finalized in April and takes effect in August.

Central to the dispute is a new provision expanding Title IX to LGBTQ+ students. The 1972 law forbids discrimination based on sex in education. Under the new rules, Title IX will also protect against discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.

The states involved say it amounts to an illegal rewriting of the landmark legislation.

They argue it will clash with their own laws, including those restricting which bathrooms and locker rooms transgender students can use, banning them from using facilities that align with their new gender identity.

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Grew up where the former spent much of his adult life and wrote many of his books, and am related to the latter ... so luckily I feel as if I have the perspective to avoid those particular pitfalls 😉

Used my birthday money to get some thin plywood to make interior panels for the Austin, managed to cut it up to get it into the Yeti. You can just get a 5ftx 4ft in with some bending! Now the fun started after cutting it to the correct shape to fit the headliner I had to lie on my back in the load space and hold it up on my own. Now with my back and knees it was hard to sit up once lay down to reach up enough, thought I would be suffering this morning but fine. Now comes some more fun of drilling holes so it can be fixed in place.
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Now is the time to gaze away at your navel, Allie, just as long as you don't become eternally fixated on it. No belly button is that interesting, unless, perhaps, you're Mark Twain or Abe Lincoln.

No cluster tonight (hooray!) but when that happens that also means my migraine doesn't break... so I need to hit it with one last blast of pain meds and wait until it dissipates to the point that I can sleep.

So while I'm walking that pain/impairment line, just figured I'd share some more thoughts from today.

And I do apologize for so much just raw "navel-gazing" as I called it when chatting with Sara earlier. I told her I feel like the last 10 days when I close my eyes the world literally stops spinning. She said this period is like that so to give myself a pass. And so I shall.

Anyway, as mentioned a few things that, upon reflection, stuck out.

My friend the doctor? Maybe it's just how well I know him. Maybe if I provided a transcript of what he said, you all would say it was universally lovely. But for me, I feel like, while he and his wife are clearly supportive, I have no doubt he looks down on all of this.

Why? Well, he kept saying how bad he felt for me. I mean, sure, that was somewhat based on how long I've dealt with this, but it was more than that. Because he'd always follow that up with a surprised "but you sound good now" as if to say "despite the horrible thing you're dealing with." THAT felt like the undercurrent.

He kept asking about my wife, and if she was ok. And could he call her separately? First of all, he has a relationship with her so of course he could... but did he think I had her hostage?

Now maybe it was the fourth of these chats in four hours... but I don't think so. I just think it was a bunch of little cues and/or tells. They were/are benign. And I'm fine with it all. It's just that his was the only expression of pity... which really I don't have any use for. Bedside manner and all.

Of the other five? I had two amazing chats with friends who, at the end of which, we fell back into our old routines... and this evening were texting about the stuff we normally text. Which is how I know all is well.

Another was a wonderful text exchange with a chat set for Thursday, but I can tell we're good.

Another was a very curt message saying just "I was obviously surprised, but if you're happy I'm 100% good with it. Let's talk later."

Context there -I felt awful sending to him, in fact I almost pulled him from the "bucket"... but I really wanted him to know first. The reason to pull him was he is literally trying to get his latest book to his publisher by today. And when he called the other day needing advice on something, I told him he had "book voice" -- which is how he gets when he's at the finish line. So I hated the idea of adding to his burden.

Gosh I'm really looking forward to hopping onto that electrolysis table tomorrow morning and just relaxing. I really need a break.

Ok.. pain meds very much kicking in.

'night

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