Court blocks Title IX gender-identity changes at Ga., S.C. schools
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WRDW/WAGT) - A federal appeals court temporarily blocked a Title IX from taking effect Thursday in South Carolina and Georgia.
“This is a big win in our fight to protect children,” South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson said of the istrative injunction by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, which also includes Alabama and Florida.
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The new rule, which was set to take effect Aug. 1 nationwide, requires any school receiving federal funding to accommodate students’ and teachers’ gender identity.
This means biological boys and men who identify as female will be allowed to use girls’ bathrooms and locker rooms. Students and teachers will also be required to use others’ “preferred pronouns.”
“We’ve argued that the Biden istration does not have the authority to make this change, and with this temporary injunction, we now have time to make our case in court without our children being put in danger,” Wilson said.
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A ruling by a federal court in Kansas in a separate but similar lawsuit against Title IX had already blocked the rule from taking effect in some South Carolina schools, colleges and universities as well as Evans and Greenbrier high schools in Columbia County, Ga.
The ruling in Kansas will temporarily block the Biden istration’s new Title IX Rule from being implemented at some South Carolina schools, colleges and universities.
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