6 states halt Biden administration's Title IX rewrite after West Virginia athlete's lawsuit

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A U.S. district court in Kentucky on Monday ordered the implementation of the Biden administration’s new Title IX protections halted after a West Virginia girl and a Christian Educators Association International sued after a transgender teen competed on a middle school team.

The new injunction applies to Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana, Virginia and West Virginia.

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An athlete prepares to compete in the men's 4x100-meter relay during the Division I Men's and Women's Outdoor Track & Field Championship on June 7, 2023 in Austin, Texas. (C. Morgan Engel/NCAA Photos via Getty Images)

"Nonetheless, despite society’s enduring recognition of biological differences between the sexes, as well as an individual’s basic right to bodily privacy, the Final Rule mandates that schools permit biological men into women’s intimate spaces, and women into men’s, within the educational environment based entirely on a person’s subjective gender identity," the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky said in its ruling. 

"This result is not only impossible to square with Title IX but with the broader guarantee of education protection for all students."

A federal judge blocked Biden’s Title IX rule in Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana and Idaho last week.

Tennessee v. Cardona centers around the case of B.P.J., Becky Pepper-Jackson – a track athlete in West Virginia whose representatives overturned the Saves Women’s Sports Act in the state back in April.

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