Title IX Rule Expanding LGBTQ Rights Barred by Federal Court (1)

A Biden Education Department Title IX rule that aims to strengthen protections for transgender students was blocked by a federal court in four states Thursday.

Judge Terry Doughty, of the US District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, issued a preliminary injunction against the rule in Louisiana, Mississippi, Idaho, and Montana.

The regulation expands Title IX protections against discrimination and harassment in federally funded education programs to include sexual orientation, gender identity and sex characteristics.

“It is clear in the text of Title IX itself, and in the decades-long impact of Title IX, that its enactment was created ...