The Supreme Court, in a 5-4 opinion posted late Friday, has blocked the Biden Administration’s Title IX rules that would force schools that receive public funding to allow trans-identifying males into girls’ bathrooms, locker rooms, and sports.
The rules went into effect on August 1 for all but 26 states plus hundreds of additional schools, and expanded the definition of “sex” to include “sexual orientation and gender identity.” Title IX was originally implemented in 1972 and prohibited schools receiving public funding from discriminating against students based on sex.
In a 12-page ruling, the Supreme Court granted a temporary stay of the guidelines by siding with multiple other lower courts, which ruled against the Biden administration’s attempts to sever the sexual orientation and gender identity portions of the new rules from the guidelines as a whole, and allow the…
