Texas sues Biden administration to block expansion of LGBTQ+ student protections
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Texas sues Biden administration to block expansion of LGBTQ+ student protections
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the Biden administration Monday for expanding federal sex discrimination protections under Title IX to include LGBTQ+ students. Title IX is a sweeping civil rights law that prohibits sex-based discrimination at federally funded colleges and K-12 schools.
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Five Republican-led states sue over Biden’s new Title IX transgender protections
Five Republican-led states have sued the Biden administration over its new rules expanding Title IX — a federal civil rights law that protects students from sex-based discrimination in federally funded schools — to protect transgender students. A handful of Republican officials in other states have publicly said they will not enforce the new rules but have stopped short of filing lawsuits. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, sued the Biden administration Monday to block the...
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Five states sue to block Biden administration's rule inserting 'gender identity' into Title IX
Five states sued the Biden administration to overturn its final rule reinterpreting Title IX to include gender identity, seeking to thwart the effort to fold transgender women into the landmark civil-rights law.