The Supreme Court (SCOTUS) has ruled that the Biden administration cannot enforce its expanded federal protections for transgender students in the 26 states that have asked to block them while ongoing court challenges to the rules play out.
The Biden administration unveiled its revisions to Title IX, the federal anti-discrimination measures that protect students, in April 2024. While the revised rules expanded protections for trans students — including the right to use gendered facilities at school that match their gender identities and the right to be addressed by their proper name and pronouns — they did not include protections for trans student athletes from sports bans. (In March, sources from within the Biden administration said that the president planned to wait until after the election to address the issue of protections for trans athletes, fearing that the matter “seems to be too much of a hot topic” for an election…