Louisiana tells schools to just ignore Joe Biden's new trans-inclusive Title IX rules
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Story by Daniel Villarreal (23 April 2024)
Louisiana has told the state's public schools to ignore President Joe Biden's newly released Title IX rules prohibiting anti-transgender discrimination that are set to go into effect nationwide on August 1. The state's head of education has hinted at a coming lawsuit against the new rules, and the anti-LGBTQ+ legal organization Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) has already agreed to sue.
In a Monday letter, Louisiana Superintendent of Education Cade Brumley said the new rules "likely conflict" with state laws banning trans athletes from playing on sports teams matching their gender identity, even though Biden's new rules don't mention trans athletes.
Brumley also said the new rules "likely conflict" with two bills in the legislature: one allowing teachers to misgender and deadname trans students, and a second forbidding discussion of LGBTQ+ issues in all grade levels, WVUE-DT reported.
"Brumley has made it very clear through his actions and through his letters that his concern for LGBTQ students is nil," SarahJane Guidry, executive director of the state LGBTQ+ advocacy organization, the Forum for Equality, told the aforementioned news station. "With such a small population of youth being impacted by this, but so harshly and so harmfully, it really goes to question what the motives of these legislators and this administration really is."