The rules, announced earlier this month, say school programs and activities must not discriminate against LGBTQ or pregnant students.
Texas Republican leaders are pushing back on the Biden administration’s new rules that bar schools from discriminating based on sexual orientation or gender identity. On Monday, Gov. Greg Abbott said he would direct the state’s education agency to disregard the new rules, calling them a “ham-handed effort to impose a leftist belief.” Attorney General Ken Paxton sued to block the policy, arguing the U.S.
Biden’s new Title IX rules protect LGBTQ+ students, but avoid addressing transgender athletes The department’s rules, announced earlier this month and finalized on Monday, say school programs and activities must not discriminate against LGBTQ or pregnant students. Colleges and K-12 schools that don’t comply risk losing their federal funding when the rule takes effect in August.
What is Title IX? What you need to know about the 1972 law against discrimination in education In a statement, Paxton said the state won’t let Biden “rewrite Title IX at whim, destroying legal protections for women in furtherance of his radical obsession with gender ideology.” “This attempt to subvert federal law is plainly illegal, undemocratic, and divorced from reality,” Paxton, a third-term Republican, continued.
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