Washington, D.C. – Today, Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee (CWALAC), the nation’s largest public policy women’s organization, applauded another federal court decision putting a hold on Biden’s illegitimate Title IX rewrite that redefines the meaning of “sex” to include “gender identity” in federal civil rights law. Biden imposed an August 1 deadline for schools to comply with its sweeping new mandates which courts decisively are ruling run afoul of the 1972 law passed by Congress.

With yesterday’s decision in the Eastern District of Missouri, federal courts are 8 for 8 in blocking Biden’s radical Title IX Rule from taking effect. These include six federal district courts and the 5^th and 6^th circuits on appeal. Decisions to date apply to 21 states (see below), a Texas school district, and plaintiffs whose members put the new mandates on hold in more than  670 colleges and universities and hundreds of schools at the K-12 level.

Judges’ orders blocking enforcement of the final rule are unanimous in scolding the Biden-Harris Administration for executive overreach mandating “gender identity” protections that impose a new form of sex discrimination against female students and athletes. Biden’s regulations effectively overturn the intent of Title IX passed by Congress to ensure women have equal educational opportunities and benefits, making trans-identifying men the new women.  

Under President Joe Biden’s radical rewrite of Title IX, female students will no longer have federal protection against sex discrimination in educational activities, including athletics. Biden’s rule rejects that “sex” is defined as biologically male and female. Women and girls lose their rights to equality of opportunity because males self-identifying as women are given new rights to take their place, use their bathrooms and locker rooms, and play on their sports teams.  

“Shame on Biden and Harris and all those feminists around him who claim to care about women’s rights!” said Penny Nance, CEO and President of CWALAC. “Consensus in the lower courts is a resounding slam of a trans-activist agenda to redefine the plain meaning of sex in federal law. CWA’s efforts to encourage thousands of comments opposing the Biden Title IX Rule and its fight to protect the dignity of women will never end.

“But the Biden-Harris agenda is not going down without a fight. In the face of defeat, Biden’s Solicitor General has appealed to the Supreme Court asking it to uphold provisions of the new regulation that it claims are not contested by the lawsuits. This is a desperate attempt to limit the damage of judicial repudiation in the lower courts.”

The list of states for which the implementation of the rule has been blocked include Alaska, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming.

For more information or for an interview, please contact comms@cwfa.org.