The final rule “protects against discrimination based on sex stereotypes, sexual orientation, gender identity, and sex characteristics,” per the department. The updated regulations are also aimed at “restoring and strengthening full protection from sexual violence and other sex-based harassment.”
Conveniently left out of all of the Oregon Capital Chronicle, that leftwing rag of a news source, is that this “final rule” effectively guts women’s sports. Adding protection for the amorphous (at best) “gender identity” category means that boys can play girls sports and men can play women’s sports on a thoroughly subjective basis. That’s the end of fair competition.
Though the Biden administration’s final rule for Title IX extending federal protections for LGBTQ+ students went into effect nationwide Thursday, a slew of legal challenges has temporarily blocked over half of all states from enforcing the updated regulations.
After the Department of Education released the final rule in April, 26 states — all with GOP attorneys general — rushed to challenge the measure. Given the myriad legal challenges, the updated regulations only went into effect Thursday in 24 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.
…The final rule is temporarily blocked in Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia and Wyoming.
This “final rule” will need to be adjudicated, probably at the Supreme Court level. I expect and hope that the “final rule” will be overturned.