“Huge win for girls and women everywhere!” exulted Riley Gaines. “Common sense is slowly returning,” she continued after news that a federal judge shot down Joe Biden’s attempt to promote biological males competing in women’s sports.
That may overstate the impact at the moment, but hopefully not the trend. For now, though, Biden’s last-minute poison pill of federal regulation has been dissolved:
“It is abundantly clear that discrimination on the basis of sex means discrimination on the basis of being a male or female,” Reeves wrote. “Expanding the meaning of ‘on the basis of sex’ to include ‘gender identity’ turns Title IX on its head.”
The ruling comes after U.S. District Court Judge Terry Doughty issued a preliminary injunction in a related case in June. Doughty, based in Louisiana, argued the Biden administration’s changes violated the…
