Texas Gets Biden’s Guidance on Transgender Students Blocked

The Biden Administration can’t enforce in Texas guidance documents it adopted after deciding that Title IX of the Education Amendments protects gay and transgender students, a federal court said.

The documents adopted by the US Department of Education advance “an agenda wholly divorced from the text, structure, and contemporary context of Title IX,” Judge Reed O’Connor said Monday for the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas. O’Connor was nominated to federal bench in 2007 by President George W. Bush and has consistently ruled in favor of conservative arguments.

O’Connor isn’t the first federal judge to address ...