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Republican officials in five states are suing to prevent the Biden administration's expansion of Title IX to include new protections for transgender students. Finalized earlier in April, the new rules explicitly bar discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity under Title IX, a federal civil rights law to protect sex-based discrimination in federally funded schools.
Republican attorneys general in four other states — Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana and Idaho — also sued the administration on Monday and accused it of government overreach. The states characterize the new rules as 'a naked attempt to strong-arm our schools into molding our children in the current federal government's preferred image of how a child should think, act, and speak.
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