Republican-Led States Sue to Block New Title IX Rule Education Week
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Two separate groups of Republican-led states on Monday filed lawsuits challenging the U.S. Department of Education’s final regulation on Title IX, focusing on the new rule’s protections for students’ gender identity.
The regulation is “a naked attempt to strong-arm our schools into molding our children in the current federal government’s preferred image of how a child should think, act, and speak,” says the lawsuit filed by Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Montana. “The Final Rule is an affront to the dignity of families and school administrators everywhere, and it is nowhere close to legal.”
Meanwhile, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina, joined by groups including Parents Defending Education, filed a suit calling the regulation “onerous” and saying it would increase costs and burdens on states.
