WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, America First Legal (AFL) joined Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in filing a critical lawsuit against President Biden’s Secretary of Education and others to stop the Biden Administration’s newly promulgated Title IX rules from wreaking havoc on women, children, and schools across the country.
Title IX is a federal statute that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in any educational program that receives federal money, including K-12 schools, colleges, and universities. The new rule contorts these protections for women by forcing schools to accommodate the wishes of men claiming to identify as women (or “transgender”) to enter female-only spaces and join female-only organizations. This would force schools to permit biological males to use female restrooms and lockers. If schools refuse, federal funding will be withheld.
This rule violates existing federal law, ignores the Constitution, and denies women the protections that Title IX was intended to afford them. The Biden Administration has exceeded its authority and radically distorted the meaning intended by Congress when the law was made. Further, the changes would fundamentally transform the educational atmosphere of publicly funded educational institutions, forcing communities to capitulate to unscientific gender ideology and putting girls and women at risk in K-12 schools and on college campuses.
The Biden Administration has attempted time and again to manipulate longstanding federal law in an attempt to advance radical transgender ideology. In a previous legal action, AFL prevailed in a lawsuit on behalf of a class of doctors against the Biden Administration’s edict that attempted to force medical providers to provide transgender medical services to patients based on a similar erroneous interpretation of “sex.”
AFL is proud to partner with the great State of Texas to fight for the rights of women and children across the United States.
Statement from America First Legal President Stephen Miller:
“America First Legal is honored to stand with the great Ken Paxton and the State of Texas in filing this emergency lawsuit to stop Biden’s war on women. Biden’s new Title IX regulation is a vile obscenity: it forces women and girls to share locker rooms and restrooms with men. It forces them to call a he, a she, and to pretend in every way that a man is a woman, humiliating, degrading, and erasing women. This is an abomination, and as outside counsel for Texas we will battle this regulation in court with all the legal fight we can bring. It must be defeated for the sake of American women and for the sake of our daughters,” said Stephen Miller.
Read the complaint here.
Read more information about the case here.
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