The U.S. Department of Education is reviewing a federal judge’s order blocking new rules that expand Title IX protections to LGBTQ+ students.
In April, the Biden administration expanded the definition of sexual harassment at schools and colleges to include gay, lesbian, and transsexual students prohibiting discrimination “based on sex stereotypes, sexual orientation, gender identity, and sex characteristics.”
A U.S. district judge temporarily blocked the Biden administration’s LGBTQ expansion in Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia on Monday, referring to the regulation as “arbitrary in the truest sense of the word.”
Meanwhile last Thursday, another U.S. district judge blocked the latest changes from going into effect in Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, and Idaho calling it an “abuse of power” and a “threat to democracy.”
“This case demonstrates the abuse of power by executive federal agencies in the rulemaking process,” Western District of Louisiana Chief Judge Terry Doughty wrote in a 40-page opinion last week. “The separation of powers and system of checks and balances in this country exist for a reason.”
Doughty added in the ruling that Title IX was “written and intended to protect biological women from discrimination.”
U.S. District Judge Danny C. Reeves handed down his ruling Monday dealing
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