Published on August 17, 2024, 12:31 am

In a significant development, the Supreme Court recently upheld temporary injunctions by two lower courts to halt President Joe Biden’s rule that ties federal civil rights law with transgender issues in education. This ruling notably affects diverse educational domains like school bathrooms and women’s sports.

Under the Biden-Harris administration, the Department of Education instituted alterations to Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972. This historic act was enacted to prohibit gender-based discrimination in education. Under the new framework, Americans are subjected to forceful adoption of gender ideology as a method of preventing discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

Leading legal battles against the Department of Education and its secretary, Miguel Cardona, Tennessee and Louisiana have sought injunctions to suspend this legal application. Both states received preliminary injunctions from the 5th and 6th U.S Circuit Courts of Appeals. The decrees stalled implementation of these controversial rules. Yet, Secretary Cardona reverted to the Supreme Court where his emergency appeal was dismissed on Friday.

Despite presenting an argument about partitioning certain aspects of the contentious laws while retaining others, Cardona failed to convince Supreme Court justices who rejected this proposal outrightly.

This ruling applies in several states including Tennessee, Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, Virginia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana and Idaho.

Supporters of these lawsuits – such as Tennessee and Louisiana – argue that Biden’s Title IX rules unconstitutionally redefine sex discrimination and encroach upon students’ and employees’ rights for safety and privacy. The newly defined harassment based on creating a “hostile environment” has been criticized for violating First Amendment rights by forcing students and teachers to use preferred pronouns.

Eventually all nine Supreme Court Justices conceded interim relief from these laws for Tennessee, Louisiana along with other participants in their litigation cases against administration’s transgender rules. However Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan,Niel Gorsuch,Ketanji Brown gently protested that the injunctions blocking entire provisions of Title IX seemed excessively large-scale.

Regarding trusted news from real sources, it is known that Alliance Defending Freedom- a Christian law firm of prominence–represented a female athlete from a West Virginia high school and the Christian Educators Association International who merged with Tennessee’s legal battle. ADF also provides representation for Louisiana School board serving more than 20k students who have joined bullying cases in their respective states.

ADF VP (litigation strategy), Jonathan Scruggs, publicly commented on the ruling labeling Biden-Harris administration’s sex redefinition as “radical” he says this act “rolls back advancements towards equal opportunities for women while compromising fairness and student safety and privacy.” He vocally praises Supreme Court for sustaining restraining orders passed by 5th and 6th Circuit against Biden administration’s inappropriate endeavors to rewrite Title IX during ongoing lawsuits

The Education Department had made an announcement this April about redefining “sex” in Title IX rules to include “gender identity”, effectively requiring schools to overlook biological differences between males and females due to individual gender perception.

This change was inspired by controversial interpretation of Supreme Court’s decision in Bostok V Clayton County(2020) where Justice Gorsuch emphasized that discrimination on grounds of sex mentioned in federal employment law included gender identity based discrimination. His declaration clearly specified his intention not to extend this meaning to areas including sex-divided washrooms or sporting teams.

Lastly, it’s important to note how the Alliance Defending Freedom explained how these policies would oblige schools into granting admission to males claiming female identities into enclosed girl spaces like locker rooms, showers, physical education classes notwithstanding girls’ sports groups despite disclaimers stating otherwise.