Court Of Appeals Keeps Injunction In Place Regarding Title IX

A court injunction will remain in place that essentially prohibits the Biden Administration’s attempt to rewrite Title IX. That change would change the definition of “sex” in Title IX to include “gender identity”. Title IX as it reads now and has since 1972, requires equal access for females to educational opportunities, athletic activities, and private restrooms and locker rooms in nearly all schools that take federal dollars. Title IX has been a huge reason that girls’ athletics has become a big part of both high school and college. Critics of the Biden Administration’s attempt to change Title IX, say that if successful, girls would have to share a locker room with boys who “identify as girls”.

On Wednesday, the 6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals rejected the Biden administration’s request to partially undo an injunction that was issued by a district court in late June that banned the Biden Administration from making any change to Title IX while an ongoing lawsuit makes its way through the legal system. That lawsuit is the state of Tennessee vs. Cordona. The court of appeals decision will keep the lower court’s injunction in place in the state of Tennessee as well as Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Virginia who are all part of the lawsuit.