Oklahoma secured a preliminary injunction last July preventing the Department of Education from issuing a new Title IX regulation.
The Trump administration dropped the federal government’s appeal of a preliminary injunction that blocked the government from extending gender identity discrimination protections to the education sector.
The appeal had been initiated by the Biden administration, which left office on Jan. 20, but the new administration decided not to pursue it. Often when a new president is inaugurated the new administration changes position in litigation that is already before the courts.
Oklahoma obtained the injunction from a federal district judge last summer after the Biden administration moved to amend Title IX regulations, which cover sex-based discrimination in…
