LEXINGTON, KY – The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has blocked the Biden Administration’s outrageous Title IX rules in Kentucky until the Sixth Circuit can hold a full hearing on the merits of the case, State of Tennessee v. Cardona. This ruling keeps in place a previous ruling from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky that blocked the Biden Administration’s rules while the challenge to the rewrite goes through the court system.
If the district court had been reversed, public K-12 schools and universities would have been required to allow males identifying as girls into girls’ restrooms, locker rooms, and sports when the Biden rules went into effect on August 1. Non-complying institutions would have risked losing access to federal funding.
Statement from David Walls, executive director of The Family Foundation:
“We are grateful that the Sixth Circuit has blocked the Biden Administration’s radical redefinition of ‘sex’ that would reverse opportunities that women and girls have enjoyed for 50 years under Title IX. It is outrageous that this administration is willing to sacrifice the safety, privacy, and educational opportunities of women and girls at the altar of those promoting harmful gender ideologies.
“Kentucky must continue to push back against these politicized efforts to infuse radical gender ideology into law. This attempt to erase women and cancel biological truth will ultimately fail,” Walls concluded.
Last month, Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman and Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti led a coalition of six states (Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana, Ohio, Virginia and West Virginia) to urge the district court to grant the preliminary injunction.
The Family Foundation helped lead the effort to pass the Save Women’s Sports Act (SB 83) in Kentucky during the 2022 General Assembly. 25 states have now passed Save Women’s Sports laws in the last several years.
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