Texas Scorecard By Luca Cacciatore August 15, 2024
The ruling is the latest movement in a full-scale legal effort by Texas and other Republican states to contest the Biden-Harris administration’s proposed Title IX changes.Texas has secured another critical injunction against the Biden-Harris administration’s attempted redefinition of Title IX laws that would have put women’s private spaces and sports at risk.
Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office revealed in a Wednesday press release that the United States District Court in Northern Texas expanded an existing injunction against the redefinition in Texas on August 5.
The first injunction addressed specific language in the administration’s proposed changes to Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, a provision barring sex-based discrimination in education programs that receive federal funding.
The proposed changes, framed as a redefinition, were initially publicized in a June 2021 Notice of Interpretation.
Judge Reed O’Connor argued that the redefinition’s inclusion of “sexual orientation or gender identity” under anti-discrimination provisions unlawfully usurped Congress and vacated it from taking effect in Texas.
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