A federal judge on Thursday struck down the Biden administration’s redefinition of sex as “gender identity” in Title IX, a policy that critics say harms women and girl athletes.
“When Title IX is viewed in its entirety, it is abundantly clear that discrimination on the basis of sex means discrimination on the basis of being a male or female,” U.S. district judge Danny Reeves of the Eastern District of Kentucky wrote. The Department of Education’s decision to expand “the meaning of ‘on the basis of sex’ to include ‘gender identity,'” Reeves ruled, is not only an overstepping of authority but also “turns Title IX on its head.”
The decision comes in response to a lawsuit filed by Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Virginia, and West Virginia, the Associated Press reported. Attorneys general in more than 20 Republican-led states have filed legal challenges to the rules, which took effect last August, arguing that the expansion of…
