In a landmark decision, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has secured a major win against the Biden regime\u2019s Department of Education (DOE), halting its efforts to enforce radical \u201ctransgender\u201d policies in Texan educational institutions.<\/p>\n
This move effectively challenges the administration\u2019s attempt to reinterpret Title IX to include \u201csexual orientation\u201d and \u201cgender identity\u201d as protected classes, in clear violation of both state and federal laws.<\/p>\n
In June 2023, Paxton filed a lawsuit against DOE for an illegal attempt to coerce schools into adopting \u201ctransgender\u201d ideology by threatening the loss of federal education funds.<\/p>\n
According to the press release<\/a>:<\/p>\n Title IX is a federal statute that prohibits discrimination \u201con the basis of sex\u201d in educational institutions. Under Biden, the Department of Education has issued guidance arbitrarily expanding this category to include \u201csexual orientation\u201d and \u201cgender identity.\u201d The guidance risks federal education funding for Texas colleges and universities as well as all Texas K-12 schools receiving any amount of federal funding by unlawfully asserting that these conceptions promoted by the extremist transgender movement are covered by Title IX protections.<\/p>\n Examples purported by the Biden Administration to be violations of Title IX include teachers failing to forcibly compel students to use classmates\u2019 so-called \u201cpreferred pronouns,\u201d schools\u2019 policies enforcing separate bathroom facilities for biological males and females, and schools\u2019 policies refusing to allow biological males to compete on female sports teams. Under this doctrine, Texas schools would be investigated by the federal government for following Texas law, including Chapter 33 of the Education Code protecting the integrity of school athletics participation on the basis of biological sex.<\/p>\n Texas is challenging this blatant attempt to misuse federal regulatory power to force K-12 schools, colleges, and universities in our state to accept and implement \u201ctransgender\u201d ideology\u2014in violation of state law\u2014by misusing the Title IX statute to threaten the withholding of federal education funds. The Administration\u2019s unlawful guidance could put at risk over $6 billion in federal funding that supports Texas K-12 and higher education institutions.<\/p>\n In April 2024, the Biden regime announced<\/a> that women will be forced to allow men in their locker rooms and bathrooms with a new 1577-page Title IX ruling. Women will be forced to compete against men, and accept men on their sports teams. Women and young girls will be required to share locker rooms and bathrooms based on gender identity rather than biological sex.<\/p>\n Now, the court has ruled in favor<\/a> of Paxton, stating that the \u201cDepartment lacks authority to redefine \u201csex\u201d in a way that conflicts with Title IX.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cJoe Biden\u2019s unlawful effort to weaponize Title IX for his extremist agenda has been stopped in its tracks,\u201d said Attorney General Paxton. \u201cThreatening to withhold education funding by forcing states to accept \u2018transgender\u2019 policies that put women in danger was plainly illegal. Texas has prevailed on behalf of the entire Nation.\u201d<\/p>\n The court order explains: \u201c[The Biden Administration] failed to follow the proper procedures here. Rather than promote the equal opportunity, dignity, and respect that Title IX demands for both biological sexes, [the DOE\u2019s] Guidance Documents do the opposite in an effort to advance an agenda wholly divorced from the text, structure, and contemporary context of Title IX.\u2026 Thus, to allow [the Biden Administration\u2019s] unlawful action to stand would be to functionally rewrite Title IX in a way that shockingly transforms American education and usurps a major question from Congress. That is not how our democratic system functions.\u201d<\/p>\n To read the order,\u00a0click here.<\/a><\/p>\n The post Major Victory: Texas AG Ken Paxton Crushes Biden\u2019s Overreach, Blocks Radical \u2018Transgender\u2019 Policies in Schools Nationwide<\/a> appeared first on The Gateway Pundit<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In a landmark decision, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has secured a major win against the Biden regime\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n