The Biden regime has withdrawn its proposed Title IX rule that sought to expand protections for transgender athletes in educational institutions.
This decision comes after substantial opposition from conservative lawmakers, women’s rights advocates, and a series of legal challenges that questioned the rule’s implications on women’s sports and privacy rights.
The initial proposal aimed to amend Title IX—a federal civil rights law that prohibits sex-based discrimination in federally funded education programs—to include protections based on gender identity, as previously reported by The Gateway Pundit.
This change would have required schools to allow transgender athletes to participate in sports teams aligning with their gender identity, potentially granting biological males access to women’s locker rooms and bathrooms.
Oklahoma State Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters condemned Joe Biden’s recent rewrite of Title IX, labeling it as “radical and illegal” and a direct assault on the rights of states, families, and specifically young women and girls.
“President Biden deciding to rewrite Title IX is one of the most radical and illegal moves we’ve ever seen from the federal government. It’s an attack on our states. It’s an attack on our families. And it’s an attack on our young women and girls. We will not stand for this in Oklahoma,” said Ryan Walters.
In August this year, the U.S. Supreme Court smacked down the regime’s request to implement the rule in 10 states after lower court federal judges blocked it from doing so. The rule is also blocked in 16 other states as part of ongoing lawsuits.
“On this limited record and in its emergency applications, the Government has not provided this Court a sufficient basis to disturb the lower courts’ interim conclusions that the three provisions found likely to be unlawful are intertwined with and affect other provisions of the rule,” the court’s order read.
A dismayed Justice Sonia Sotomayor slammed the Supreme Court’s decision and said the lower court rulings were “overbroad.”
“By blocking the Government from enforcing scores of regulations that respondents never challenged and that bear no apparent relationship to respondents’ alleged injuries, the lower courts went beyond their authority to remedy the discrete harms alleged here,” Sotomayor wrote.
The cases were then returned to lower appeals courts.
Now, the Biden regime has withdrawn a proposed Title IX rule that would have mandated the inclusion of transgender athletes in sports teams aligning with their gender identity.
“The U.S. Department of Education (Department) is withdrawing the notice of proposed rulemaking entitled “Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Sex in Education Programs or Activities Receiving Federal Financial Assistance: Sex-Related Eligibility Criteria for Male and Female Athletic Teams” published in the Federal Register on April 13, 2023. The proposed rule would have amended the regulations implementing Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (Title IX),” the document from the Dept. of Education reads.
It continued, “The Department recognizes that there are multiple pending lawsuits related to the application of Title IX in the context of gender identity, including lawsuits related to Title IX’s application to athletic eligibility criteria in a variety of factual contexts. In light of the comments received and those various pending court cases, the Department has determined not to regulate on this issue at this time. Therefore, the Department hereby withdraws the Athletics NPRM and terminates this rulemaking proceeding.”
