On Monday a U.S. district judge in Kentucky temporarily blocked the Biden administration's new Title IX protections for LGBTQ students in six states, bringing the total number of states the new rules will likely not go into effect August 1 to ten.
Republican state attorneys general are fighting the Biden Dept. of Education policies that protect the minority students. "U.
S. District Judge Danny C. Reeves referred to the regulation as 'arbitrary in the truest sense of the word' in granting a preliminary injunction blocking it in Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia.
His ruling comes days after a different federal judge temporarily blocked the new rule from taking effect in Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi and Montana," the Associated Press reports. READ MORE: Rick Scott’s IVF Pledge Using His Own Grandkids Slammed as ‘Lie’ by Democrats “The judge’s order makes clear that the U.S.
Department of Education’s attempt to redefine ‘sex’ to include ‘gender identity’ is unlawful and beyond the agency’s regulatory authority,” Kentucky state Attorney General Russell Coleman said in a statement, despite the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Bostock .
In 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that in employment, discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity is sex discrimination, and therefore prohibited under Title VII.
That 6-3 ruling in Bostock v. Clayton County was authored by a right-wing justice, Neil Gorsuch. Judge Reeve.