The Attorney General of Texas, Ken Paxton has issued more lawsuits against the Biden Administration than any other state.

Now he is filing again, this time to stop an unlawful federal rule issued by the Biden Regime that destroys protections for women in educational institutions by mandating compliance with radical gender ideology.

The Department of Education’s new regulatory requirements under Title IX expand the definition of “sex” to include one’s self-professed “gender identity.”

Title IX is a civil rights law granting protections to women by prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex in any educational program that receives federal money, including K-12 schools, colleges, and universities.

The new rule contorts these protections for women by forcing schools to accommodate the wishes of men claiming to identify as women (or “transgender”) to enter female-only spaces and join female-only organizations. This would force schools to permit biological males to use female restrooms and lockers. If schools refused, federal funding would be withheld.

While the Biden Administration initially attempted to implement this agenda through informal agency guidance, the Department of Education has now turned to formally amending the Code of Federal Regulations.

This rule violates existing federal law, ignores the Constitution, and denies women the protections that Title IX was intended to afford them.

The Biden Administration has exceeded its authority and radically distorted the meaning intended by Congress when the law was made.

Further, the changes would fundamentally transform the educational atmosphere of publicly funded educational institutions, forcing communities to capitulate to unscientific gender ideology and putting girls and women at risk in K-12 schools and on college campuses.

In addition, the new regulations promise to repeat the Department’s ill-advised 2011 Dear Colleague Letter, which had a detrimental impact on publicly funded education across the country, including in Texas.

“Texas will not allow Joe Biden to rewrite Title IX at whim, destroying legal protections for women in furtherance of his radical obsession with gender ideology,” said Attorney General Paxton. “This attempt to subvert federal law is plainly illegal, undemocratic, and divorced from reality. Texas will always take the lead to oppose Biden’s extremist, destructive policies that put women at risk.”

America First Legal is serving as co-counsel. AFL President Stephen Miller said: “America First Legal is honored to stand with the great Ken Paxton and the State of Texas in filing this emergency lawsuit to stop Biden’s war on women.”

“Biden’s new Title IX regulation is a vile obscenity: it forces women and girls to share locker rooms and restrooms with men,” he continued. “It forces them to call a he, a she, and to pretend in every way that a man is a woman, humiliating, degrading, and erasing women. This is an abomination, and as outside counsel for Texas we will battle this regulation in court with all the legal fight we can bring. It must be defeated for the sake of American women and for the sake of our daughters.”

Previously, Texas sued the Biden Administration over initial guidance documents that attempted to force the same policies.

Attorney General Paxton issued a comment letter when the federal rule redefining sex based on “gender identity” and “sexual orientation” rather than objective reproductive biology was first proposed.  

“Many people disagree about the nature of “gender identity” and “sexual orientation,” as well as the legal implications of those concepts. But the new rule allows the objective, scientific-biological view to be treated as “sexual harassment.” This represents a serious threat to students’ First Amendment rights to discuss these issues.” Paxton wrote in 2022. “The rule also diminishes due process protections for individuals accused of such harassment, meaning that students could face life-altering punishments without knowing exactly what they’re being punished for and without the constitutionally protected right to defend themselves.”

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