Judge throws out Biden’s ‘arbitrary’ protections for LGBT+ students - Federal judge blocks Title IX changes intended to protect trans and nonbinary students from discrimination

The Biden administration’s Title IX rules expanding protections for LGBTQ+ students have been struck down nationwide after a federal judge in Kentucky found that they overstepped the president’s autho

The decision threw out the administration’s proposed regulations, which prohibited discrimination based on gender identity.

Thursday’s decision is a legal victory for six GOP attorneys general, including KY’s Russell Coleman, who sued last spring to block the new rule change from being enforced.

The Biden rule, which makes ‘gender identity’ a protected class similar to sex, ‘turns Title IX on its head,’ the judge wrote.

A federal judge has struck down the Biden administration’s regulation interpreting Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 to ban discrimination against LGBTQ+ students, especially those who are transgender.