As the date for implementing the final version of the Biden administration’s revised Title IX rules fast approaches, attorneys general are taking sides in federal courts in a debate over whether the rules protecting students from sex-based discrimination should be allowed to take effect.
The fight over Title IX continues in district courts across the country as the Aug. 1 implementation date looms. Over the last few weeks, a coalition of 16 attorneys general, led by California, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, has filed amicus briefs in seven pending cases in federal courts in Alabama, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri and Texas. The suits collectively challenge the inclusion of gender identity in the new Title IX definition of discrimination based on sex that add protections for transgender students.
