Last month, the Department of Education released its long-anticipated final regulations that broadly expand the protections of Title IX. Whether the regulations actually go into effect as scheduled on Aug. 1, 2024, remains up in the air: Over 20 states have filed lawsuits objecting to the department's regulations, with their focus on the department's expansion of sex discrimination to include "sexual orientation" and "gender identity" (consistent with the U.S. Supreme Court's 2020 Bostock v. Clayton County decision).