Texas filed a lawsuit Monday over the Biden administration’s new Title IX rules forcing public schools to allow trans-identifying males to compete in women’s sports and use women’s bathrooms.
Earlier this month, the Education Department unveiled new Title IX regulations to prohibit schools from enforcing blanket bans on trans-identifying males in girls’ sports set to take effect in August.
Title IX is the 1972 federal civil rights law prohibiting sex-based discrimination at schools receiving federal funding.
In response, Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit alleging the administration is attempting to twist the federal law’s meaning to align with “radical gender ideology.”
“Texas will not allow Joe Biden to rewrite Title IX at whim, destroying legal protections for women in furtherance of his radical obsession with gender ideology,” Paxton wrote in a…
