In Pride month, six more states in the US block rule protecting LGBTQ+ students
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The expansion of US civil rights protections to LGBTQ+ students across six states was blocked by a federal judge on Monday (June 17) in a major setback to the gender minorities in the United States. The ruling, however, is temporary in nature but it effectively blocks the Biden administration's new Title IX rule by declaring them as "arbitrary in the truest sense of the word".
The US District Judge Danny C. Reeves granted a preliminary injunction blocking the expansion of civil rights for LGBTQ+ students in the states of Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia. The ruling comes days after a different federal judge temporarily blocked the new rule from taking effect in Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi and Montana.
In Kentucky, the ruling was applauded by the state's GOP attorney general, Russell Coleman, who argued that the regulation would undermine equal opportunities for women.
"The judge’s order makes clear that the US Department of Education’s attempt to redefine ‘sex’ to include ‘gender identity’ is unlawful and beyond the agency’s regulatory authority,” Coleman said in an official statement.
Title IX Civil rights for LGBTQ+ students: What is the row?
The row has stemmed from two cases that are among at least seven backed by more than 20 Republican-led states that contest the Title IX ruling. Title IX, the Biden administration'sflagship civil rights expansion initiative, set to take effect in August just a few months before the US presidential elections in November, expands the definition of sexual harassment at schools and colleges and adds safeguards for survivors.
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In another lawsuit contesting Title IX civil rights, the US Education Department last week asked a federal judge in Missouri to deny a request for a preliminary injunction against the new rule. The lawsuit was filed last month by the Republican attorneys general of Arkansas, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota.
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The department said that enjoining the rule "would substantially harm the federal government’s interest in preventing discrimination in federally funded educational programs and activities."