Title IX Gender Identity Protections Blocked by Eleventh Circuit

The Eleventh Circuit blocked the Education Department from prohibiting discrimination on the basis of gender identity in schools that get federal funding, reversing an Alabama judge’s decision to allow the Title IX rule to take effect.

The Biden administration adopted the rule in April to include sexual orientation and gender identity in the list of characteristics protected under Title IX sex discrimination regulations. Since then, more than half of US states across ten lawsuits have sued to stop the rules from being enforced.

Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina asked the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit to ...