(RightIsRight.co) – In a major blow for extreme liberals, the Supreme Court stopped the Biden-Harris administration from enforcing a new federal rule that would expand protections for transgender individuals under the 1972 Title IX law.
Heritage Foundation legal expert Sarah Parshall Perry commented, “For female students everywhere from preschool to graduate school [in 26 states] – today is a day for celebration.”
Biden’s rewrite of the regulation asserts that a school’s refusal to recognize a student’s transgender status would be considered a violation of Title IX, which is intended to prevent sexual discrimination.
This change allows private law firms to sue schools where teachers and students do not accept a transgender student’s claimed gender identity.
For instance, under this rule, outside lawyers could challenge a school that does not allow boys into girls’ bathrooms or refuse to let a girls’ team compete against a team with male players.
Kamala Harris supports the new regulation and has been a vocal advocate for transgender rights, despite increasing public resistance.
If elected, Harris is expected to use the rewritten rule to take legal action against schools and communities that prefer to recognize biological sex as distinct and complementary.
Moreover, some believe the transgender ideology could negatively impact youth’s health and mental well-being by promoting the idea that a new “gender identity” and related body changes will lead to happiness and success.
Former President Donald Trump has been a strong critic of transgender policies and has vowed to overturn the regulation.
Furthermore, attorneys General in GOP-aligned states have filed lawsuits to block the administration’s changes to federal law in the 26 states where lower-court judges have already put parts of the regulation on hold.
The Department of Justice (DOJ), under Biden’s administration, opposed the delay. Yet, all nine Supreme Court justices agreed to pause the enforcement of the new rule, partly due to disagreements among lower court judges about its validity.
The Supreme Court’s decision sends the case back to lower courts, which have already issued conflicting rulings.
“There are two sexes: Male and female,” wrote federal district judge Danny Reeves in Covington, blocking the regulations in Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Virginia, and West Virginia.
In the meantime, states run by Democrats, including Harris’ California, will be allowed to enforce the gender ideology on their students, parents, teachers, and staff.
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