States Challenge Biden’s Title IX Overhaul Expanding Gender Identity, Potentially Forcing Co-Ed Bathrooms and Lodging

Multiple states, including Louisiana, Mississippi, Idaho, and Montana, have filed lawsuits against the Biden administration’s Title IX overhaul that redefines sex to include claimed gender identities. Texas has also joined in a separate lawsuit with conservative legal group America First Legal. The new rules expand the definition of sex and could force schools to accommodate individuals identifying as transgender into female-only spaces, potentially leading to shared bathrooms, locker rooms, and overnight field trips lodging for both genders. Critics argue that this turns civil rights protections on their heads and harms women’s safety concerns in pre-schools, elementary schools, middle schools, high schools, colleges, and universities across the country. The lawsuits claim that these rules effectively prohibit sex-separate facilities, which would be detrimental to both students and parents by forcing them into opposite gender spaces while also hiding counseling information about “gender affirming” actions from guardians’ knowledge. Many state education leaders have already taken steps in anticipation of legal action against the new rule set to take effect on August 1st, with schools chiefs in at least four states directing districts not to implement it until further notice is given by courts. The Education Department did not respond for comment regarding these lawsuits.