States Fail in Bid to Block New Title IX Anti-Gender Bias Rules

An Alabama federal judge rejected a four-state bid for an order blocking the Biden administration’s enforcement in their states of its Title IX rule barring discrimination on the basis of gender identity in schools that receive federal funding.

The Alabama, Georgia, Florida and South Carolina attorneys general challenging the Education Department standard, which includes sexual orientation and gender identity in the list of characteristics protected under sex discrimination regulations, failed to show a substantial likelihood of success in their lawsuit, Judge Annemarie Carney Axon of the US District Court for the Northern District of Alabama said.

The Biden administration adopted ...