A federal judge blocked Joe Biden’s attempt to redefine Title IX to allow boys into girls locker rooms and sports teams—likely the final blow in this battle, as President-elect Donald J. Trump takes office in ten days.
Open your History textbook: Signed into law in 1972 by Richard Nixon, Title IX prohibits sex-based discrimination in federally funded education programs, paving the way for girls and women to earn scholarships in both sports and academics.
The details: A Kentucky U.S. District Court judge ruled yesterday that the Biden regime’s attempt to re-write Title IX to include protections for people who identify as transgender was illegal, writing:
“[T]here is nothing in the text or statutory design of Title IX to suggest that discrimination ‘on the basis of sex’ means anything other than… the person’s sex, i.e., male or female.”
Back up: The Biden regime’s Department of Education, under Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, attempted to expand the law to include discrimination based on a person’s gender “identity.”
Zoom out: If Biden’s rule was allowed to go through, it would have forced schools to allow boys to participate in girls’ sports and use girls’ locker rooms, showers, and bathrooms.
What to expect when Trump takes over: He has repeatedly, throughout the 2024 campaign, pledged to “keep men out of women’s sports.”
Big picture: The court put it best when it said Biden’s attempt to change Title IX would “exceed the Department’s authority under Title IX, violate the Constitution, and are the result of arbitrary and capricious agency action.”