Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a federal lawsuit in Amarillochallenging a new federal regulation that mandates protections for transgender students at
A flood watch has been issued from 3 p.m. this afternoon until Thursday morning for Bexar and multiple surrounding counties.WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 01: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks outside the U.S. Supreme Court on November 01, 2021 in Washington, DC. On Monday, the Supreme Court heard arguments in a challenge to the controversial Texas abortion law which bans abortions after 6 weeks.
"This is federal government overreach, but it's of a degree and dimension like no other," Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill said in a news conference Monday. The attorney general's office in Indiana said that state was joining a lawsuit to be filed in Tennessee on Tuesday. Tennessee's attorney general's office said they are leading a multi-state suit to be filed, but did not confirm details.
"The Final Rule drives a dagger through the heart of Title IX's mandate," states contend in the Louisiana court filing. "The central feature of the Final Rule is the Department's extraordinary move to transform Title IX's prohibition of discrimination based on 'sex' to include discrimination based on 'gender identity,'" which the lawyers call "a wildly ambiguous term.
Even without the regulation, whether transgender girls can be kept out of girls sports is an unsettled legal question. Last week, a federal appeals court ruled in a 2-1 decision that West Virginia cannot bar one teenage transgender athlete from her school's girls track and field and cross country teams. The state government said it was appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court.
President Joe Biden's administration previously planned to announce a policy forbidding schools from enacting outright bans on transgender girls in girls sports, but it has backed off that plan and did not include it as part of the regulation.
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