In striking down the Biden administration’s changes to Title IX, a federal court also provided a win for free speech and due process, in addition to protecting women’s sports.
While the changes to the rules that allowed men to enter women’s sports, bathrooms, and locker rooms received much media attention, the Biden rules also gutted due process and free speech for students across the nation. Proponents of civil rights praised the latest ruling, including Tyler Coward, lead counsel for government affairs at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE).
&#8220;As expected, courts have continued to find it impossible to justify the Biden administration&#8217;s changes to Title IX rules eviscerating students’ speech and due process rights,” Coward said in a statement provided to The Daily Wire. “With the 2020 rules now back in effect nationwide, schools will be required to restore procedures that respect the rights of all students.&#8221;
Title IX is a federal statute that prohibits schools that receive federal funding from discriminating based on sex. The statute initially applied to sports, but over the decades, has been expanded to allow schools to act as quasi-judicial systems over accusations of sexual assault and harassment.
Biden’s changes to the due process component of Title IX were particularly onerous, Coward explained further.
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“The Biden rules violated students’ due process rights in many ways, including by allowing for one person to serve as prosecutor, judge, and jury,” Coward said. “The regulations also eliminated students’ right to a live hearing to contest allegations and to cross-examine an accuser and witnesses through an advisor. When campus administrators investigate the most serious kinds of campus misconduct, they should use the time-tested tools that make finding the truth more likely. We don’t get closer to justice when those tools are not on the table.”
Catherine Lhamon, who leads the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights and helped the Obama administration enforce an earlier anti-due process regime, called the recent rulings against her regulations “absurd.”
“We published the most comprehensive Title IX regulation since 1975 — I love it. I think it’s amazing,” Lhamon said Wednesday, <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/09/federal-judge-vacates-bidens-title-ix-rule-00197353" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to POLITICO</a>. “It has been enjoined in multiple lawsuits in multiple states across the country, in total, which is absurd. &#8230; I don’t think that augurs well for a set of courts who are eager to be fully responsive to the civil rights guarantees that we have long had.”
On Thursday, a federal court <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/colossal-win-for-women-and-girls-federal-court-strikes-down-biden-title-ix-rewrite-nationwide" target="_blank" rel="noopener">struck down</a> the Biden administration’s new regulations, meaning schools across the country will have to follow the Trump administration’s rules, which provide due process for students accused of sexual assault, stronger protections for free speech, and continue to define “sex” as “male” or “female,” without including “gender identity.”

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Striking Down Biden’s Title IX Change Is Good For Free Speech and Due Process, Too

Striking Down Biden's Title IX Change Is Good For Free Speech and Due Process, Too

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The Biden administration’s attempt to rewrite Title IX to allow men in women’s sports, locker rooms, and bathrooms, has been struck down nationwide by a federal court.
Twenty-six states sued to stop the regulations from going into effect, and the Supreme Court in August provided a temporary stay of the rules. But now a federal court has <a href="https://adfmedialegalfiles.blob.core.windows.net/files/TennesseeAppellateOpinion.pdf">blocked</a> the regulations from going into effect for all states – even those that didn’t sue to block the regulations.
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita, one of the attorneys general who led the charge against the change to Title IX, called the latest ruling a “huge win.”
“Biden&#8217;s radical Title IX rewrite has been defeated in court again,” Rokita said on X. “For now, Hoosier girls and girls nationwide are protected from biological males being able to infringe on their private spaces. Proud to be a part of the coalition of like-minded AGs fighting for this commonsense outcome.”
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🚨Huge win! Biden&#8217;s radical Title IX rewrite has been defeated in court again. For now, Hoosier girls and girls nationwide are protected from biological males being able to infringe on their private spaces. Proud to be a part of the coalition of like-minded AGs fighting for this… <a href="https://t.co/Uk66gBMd50">pic.twitter.com/Uk66gBMd50</a>
— AG Todd Rokita (@AGToddRokita) <a href="https://twitter.com/AGToddRokita/status/1877395511524634958?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 9, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Riley Gaines, a student-athlete who competed against a male in college swimming, also lauded the ruling.
“Huge win for girls and women everywhere!!! This morning, a federal court ruled in favor of reality. Biden&#8217;s Title IX rewrite has been vacated nationwide. Common sense is slowly returning,” Thank you, [Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti]!”
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🚨Huge win for girls and women everywhere!!!
This morning, a federal court ruled in favor of reality. Biden&#8217;s Title IX rewrite has been vacated nationwide.
Common sense is slowly returning. Thank you, <a href="https://twitter.com/AGTennessee?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AGTennessee</a>! <a href="https://t.co/hD9GZu2CMC">pic.twitter.com/hD9GZu2CMC</a>
— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) <a href="https://twitter.com/Riley_Gaines_/status/1877391800823853333?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 9, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Skrmetti published his own post praising the decision, saying, “The court&#8217;s order is [a] resounding victory for the protection of girls&#8217; privacy in locker rooms and showers, and for the freedom to speak biologically-accurate pronouns.”
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Another massive win for TN and the country!
This morning, a federal court ruled in our favor and vacated the Biden admin&#8217;s radical new Title IX rule nationwide.
The court&#8217;s order is resounding victory for the protection of girls&#8217; privacy in locker rooms and showers, and for the… <a href="https://t.co/XsnzSEQvAU">pic.twitter.com/XsnzSEQvAU</a>
— TN Attorney General (@AGTennessee) <a href="https://twitter.com/AGTennessee/status/1877379286954553591?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 9, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Alliance Defending Freedom, which represents some female athletes and Christian educators fighting against Biden’s Title IX rules, <a href="https://adfmedia.org/press-release/victory-women-girls-federal-court-rejects-biden-admin-redefinition-sex-title-ix" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> the news “a colossal win for women and girls across the country.”
“The Biden administration’s radical attempt to redefine sex not only tossed fairness, safety, and privacy for female students out the window, it also threatened free speech and parental rights,” said ADF CEO, President, and General Counsel Kristen Waggoner. “With this ruling, the federal court in Kentucky rejected the entire Biden rule and the administration’s illegal actions.”
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The Biden administration attempted to redefine “sex” as it is defined under Title IX, a statute that prohibits sex-based discrimination at schools that receive federal funding. The Biden administration’s definition of “sex” included “gender identity,” which would allow biological males to compete against women in women’s sports, an unfairness that has already cost hundreds of women scholarships and medal opportunities.
President-elect Donald Trump has said he would keep men out of women’s sports, and told radio hosts Clay Travis and Buck Sexton in August that he would do so on the first day of his administration.
“President Trump just pledged to all of us on @clayandbuck that men will not be allowed to compete against women in sports when he is elected president,” Travis said on X. “He promises to take care of it on day one and end Kamala and Biden’s new Title IX policies allowing this to happen.”
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President Trump just pledged to all of us on <a href="https://twitter.com/clayandbuck?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@clayandbuck</a> that men will not be allowed to compete against women in sports when he is elected president. He promises to take care of it on day one and end Kamala and Biden’s new Title IX policies allowing this to happen.
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) <a href="https://twitter.com/ClayTravis/status/1819079232221598013?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 1, 2024</a></blockquote>
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‘Colossal Win For Women And Girls’: Federal Court Strikes Down Biden Title IX Rewrite Nationwide

Federal Court Strikes Down Biden Title IX Rewrite Nationwide

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The Biden-Harris administration on Friday officially withdrew a proposed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/title-ix" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Title IX</a> rule that would have forced all publicly-funded schools to largely allow males to participate in female sports if the athletes &#8220;identify&#8221; as female.
The administration admitted that the decision to withdraw was because of public backlash, and the numerous lawsuits that were sparked from the gender rule-change.
“In light of the comments received and those various pending court cases, the Department has determined not to regulate on this issue at this time,” Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona said in a five-page docket published Friday.
According to Cardona, the Department of Education received more than 150,000 public comments about the proposal, National Review <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/biden-administration-withdraws-proposed-title-ix-change-prohibiting-trans-athlete-bans/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a>. &#8220;Commenters offered a broad spectrum of opinions,” the docket said, adding, “there are multiple pending lawsuits related to the application of Title IX in the context of gender identity.”
The proposed change would have barred schools and colleges from outright banning males from girls&#8217; athletics, largely permitting males who identity as females to compete. There was, though, a vague loophole offered for schools to ban some male athletes if they could prove it affected safety and fairness and served “important educational objectives.&#8221;
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Female advocacy groups are celebrating the withdrawal while warning that a <a href="https://www.iwf.org/2024/04/19/bidens-title-ix-rewrite-strips-away-protections-for-women-denies-women-equal-opportunity/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">larger Title IX rewrite</a> from the administration still threatens opportunities for girls and women.
“Even the Biden administration can read the room that forcing women to compete and change with men is not a winning proposition,&#8221; May Mailman, the director of Independent Women’s Law Center and the attorney on the <a href="http://link.mediaoutreach.meltwater.com/ls/click?upn=u001.0WPHbvvzMqQI4RhVqY6K8jOl28S5aFqm1WtTqVjT03LfJ8TrcyzJEIFUqyeQyMCW87W5-2FWkV314lRzk7ZVadXZw0NdEGrsts4byXZUlo1aK5SAe5qKmwcEECVfcQBz3m6kf4LH4xPCBwQ66uYyEnl0s9PZfHtIdQXNsnlt-2FaJNEUjEfmTC-2FZVeeN-2B81IndLpbndVcd0ZLny2s2jTqSB7nRdFz1oRKtWkhqfVrMXerNY-3DyS7c_SRyOrIcdwJbpfaG7RzzySYK8nAywSKGplH3LOjf4JVtkcvJrNDWVwpIurOw1tOLOgnZfKj6KIofq0ZIPoP-2BeDdsC0uQ2E19cZzlDthMtzNm876t7gM-2BYBcPhE8gj8QDo-2F7e39w0mYzKUbWMW5i8VRZ62a7OOqgKiK6ynGSDz89G75kga8q0HO-2BTX8We4HFlPZVcEQXB6UwDsdhoIyEyqZmTebHed-2FXdEoUyp1T7qPAGH6zXdOjMb86Rmf7UAkwPnqBc37OOLGsUCEG-2FjNOB3NiYiKmRJ7KpQ13M43vSXMYQJ1JERgG3nM74IkSjKWDeb3FCAmi4JzUYSXpO8uaS5FoRSwFKROJx-2BD7wRIHO9U3EuUmEU0azcOmVmhub3MFy1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alabama v. Cardona</a> lawsuit, said in a statement sent to The Daily Wire. &#8220;Every state and private sporting body should figure this out.&#8221;
&#8220;The fight is far from over,&#8221; Mailman continued. &#8220;Biden’s omnibus Title IX regulation redefines sex to mean gender identity, threatening all women’s opportunities in school, including athletics. We’re not done protecting women from the humiliation of being treated as though they are a state of mind.”
Nicole Neily, president and founder of Parents Defending Education, noted how long it took the Biden administration to finally withdraw the deeply unpopular rule.
&#8220;After 18 months, the Biden Administration finally comes to their senses on Title IX&#8217;s application to sports!&#8221; Neily said in a statement sent to The Daily Wire. &#8220;All it took was 130K angry comments, consistent polling that showed a widening majority opposed to their position, and losing a national election.&#8221;

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After Public Blowback, Biden Finally Withdraws Insane Title IX Rule About Gender In Schools

After Blowback From Parents, Biden Finally Withdraws Insane Title IX Rule About Gender In Schools

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The recent victory of Donald Trump at the national polls ushered in “morning in America” as much as it indicated a repudiation of wokeness. His vow to dismantle the Department of Education offers the US an enviable opportunity and appointing the media tycoon Linda McMahon indicates a welcome, business-minded (read: meritocracy-based) approach. To effectively revamp our schools and the specific ways we invest in, approach, and even define education, depends on some hard truths and our willingness to confront them.
Americans have spoken by refuting the Division, Exclusion, and Inequality movement taking over our culture and our schools. Parents rejected the leftist push for gender ideology, critical race theory, and pornography in our schools to support girls-only locker rooms and their hard-won Title IX sports.
Yet the war is far from won and success in this battle only slows the advance. To preserve our traditional values, we must examine how we arrived where we are today, fighting culture conflict within our own families. While President-elect Trump addresses education on the federal level, our communities must tackle these issues locally at the same time. We can celebrate our public victories against Bud Light and Target, but if the battles for the hearts and minds of our young people continue inside our schools, we may snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
According to <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2017/02/15/u-s-students-internationally-math-science/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pew Research</a>, the U.S. ranked an <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/on-the-world-stage-us-students-fall-behind/2016/12/05/610e1e10-b740-11e6-a677-b608fbb3aaf6_story.html?utm_term=.e99466bb5b12" target="_blank" rel="noopener">unimpressive 38th</a> out of 71 countries in math and 24th in science on the most recent international academic achievement studies survey taken in 2015. We currently spend more per student than almost any other country to achieve those discouraging results. Why are we fighting to preserve such a spectacularly failing institution while the world sprints past us? Because school is good. That’s the resounding mantra we all ingested.
Schools are where we all learned to trust the experts, especially the educators, so it’s nearly impossible to repudiate the efficacy or validity of our &#8220;factory schools&#8221; and teachers. Despite our reluctance, analysis of the problem demands transparency and candor.
First, for decades, schools have coached pupils (us) to believe that their highest goal is college prep and career readiness (read: money). Where decades ago we believed in entrepreneurship, integrity and independent innovation, now culture holds that the only way to the money is the institutional road. It’s no wonder parents would sacrifice their children on the school’s altar! Save the schools or my child will not succeed! As parents see the blatant lies in our schools, the pornography, the abject ignorance, and the abysmal academic performance, belief in that ultimate fiction has recently (finally) been unseated, and we can (and should) criticize our schools.
The Marxist principles of the teachers’ unions directly contradict traditional American values, but with their market stranglehold they can afford to ignore our condemnation. Inflicting their evil dogma on impressionable minds is their second incentive to preserve their institutions. We are now in a race to see who converts the culture first. If we, however, continue submitting our children to their indoctrination, we will soon reach the tipping point where our own offspring will vote down the Second Amendment and for a surveillance state. And while laws may countermand the Marxist mantra, many ideological teachers don’t heed the law.
Enter the school choice debate. On the surface, government funds following the child makes sense. The parents can vote with their feet and their dollars. But financial infusions typically inflate costs, negating the value of injected money. Further, government intrusion disrupts honest brokerage: in the case of education, it will oust any educational endeavors unwilling to subject themselves to government scrutiny – which would be the only authentic players in the game. Universal school choice (read: single-payer education) would kill innovation, putting us right back to where we are now.
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The future is uncertain, and foundational transformation is the only way to prosper. That’s why Trump has floated tax credits for families with school-aged children. This might afford them more flexibility to raise and educate their children without the strings of government forcing its ideas on them.
The most radical idea in education is reverting to first principles — training the student to teach himself. This is how education used to work, before we began our modern &#8220;factory school&#8221; experiment. It is how the founders – those geniuses who devised our representational republic that so few of our citizens currently acknowledge – became educated.
The education revolution begins with the recognition that it doesn’t take an “expert” to train a child to be an adult; parents should do that.
Parents want a better route forward for their families and their children’s futures, and home education offers that pathway. Most parents are smart enough to be their child&#8217;s teacher. Indeed, the parent’s level of schooling is not reflective of academic outcome for the homeschooled child. Ultimately, all wisdom is self-taught and children need wisdom more than they need to drill math facts, memorize dates, or learn about lubrication.
Many parents still feel enslaved to the system, brainwashed to conform by its past self-proclaimed glory. The new learning model, however, is independent of what any woke “educators” recommend, and for good reason. Independent-minded parents choose home education instead, to foster in their children a devotion to truth, appreciation for wisdom, and the love of freedom.
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Sam Sorbo is an education freedom advocate. A successful Hollywood film actor, producer, and writer, Sam took a step back from her career to homeschool her three children. She has authored numerous books, including her newest releases: “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Parents-Guide-Homeschool-Making-Education/dp/1630063002/ref=sr_1_1?crid=HFWW0GGBD8Z8&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.yVYc1H-XpcJF2RaoepopgHFxrEhbmBVVmI0sH01FpWOXkzwvNBVNwmS-AtJu2G3FDKvoxBHkGGNNXkFFjoiBsinUChM9L5HNlpcD7m8QJ3Gm_8gxVwSQ33qiNOxwx1FlRG7ekd3i83bTCrSoSfxHOImdLZD5O_1lrJp2g6Ty8NZVtmVxBisE23eAn-mqaiAjNMUQ7YcHm_GYRo_E4y40RZq-WtC0Scz-iw9HmLCjICI.paIAaZz6m84aTGbMCODe3GFah6-u91YqwIC5zNIX5Ss&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=Sam+Sorbo&amp;qid=1733341621&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=sam+sorbo%2Cstripbooks%2C104&amp;sr=1-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Parents’ Guide to Homeschooling</a>&#8220; and &#8220;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Christmas-40-Days-Devotional-Celebration/dp/1630063029/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christmas 40 Days Devotional,</a>” with husband Kevin Sorbo.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Collegiate <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/volleyball">women’s volleyball</a> players filed multiple lawsuits on Wednesday against the Mountain West Conference over the inclusion of trans-identifying male players in their sport.
A dozen women have cited violations of their First Amendment rights and Title IX protections in response to San Jose State University’s biologically male star player Blaire Fleming’s participation in the MWC, prompting four schools in the conference to forfeit games against SJSU, <a href="https://www.outkick.com/sports/volleyball-players-sue-mountain-west-first-amendment-outkick-exclusive">OutKick</a> reported.
Several of Flemings’ SJSU teammates, like Captain Brooke Slusser and two former Spartans — along with female athletes from four other colleges — are part of the suit against the conference, its commissioner and SJSU officials over the conference&#8217;s adoption of the “Transgender participation policy&#8221; in September after the first school, Boise State, forfeited its game.
The suit said that the policy is “intended to chill protests and other expressive conduct, including boycotts, on a women’s rights issue” of women athletes in the MWC. It also claims that the trans policy was adopted outside the “normal course of MW rules and procedures” and that it was an effort to prevent schools from exercising their First Amendment Rights, the outlet noted.
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This is HUGE. Female volleyball players in the Mountain West conference drop a bombshell lawsuit against the <a href="https://twitter.com/MountainWest?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MountainWest</a> citing First Amendment &amp; Title IX violations.
Several of his SJSU teammates signed on as well. This is the way. Hold the line!!! 👏🏼<a href="https://t.co/Co6bFPUfEo">https://t.co/Co6bFPUfEo</a>
— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) <a href="https://twitter.com/Riley_Gaines_/status/1856845416219717888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 13, 2024</a></blockquote>
&#8220;Recently, the MWC, SJSU, and the other Defendants have collectively manipulated MWC rules, diminished sport opportunities for women, spread inaccurate information, used their positions to chill and suppress speech with which they disagree, and punished dozens of female collegiate volleyball student-athletes for taking a public stand for their right to compete in a separate sports category, all in a concerted effort to stamp out debate over women’s rights in sport,&#8221; the <a href="https://nevadasportsnet.com/newsletter-daily/nevada-volleyball-players-among-those-suing-mountain-west-san-jose-state-officials">lawsuit read</a>.
&#8220;The NCAA, Mountain West Conference, and college athletic directors around the country are failing women,&#8221; Bill Bock, lead attorney for the plaintiffs and the pro-woman organization <a href="https://www.iconswomen.com/">Independent Council On Women&#8217;s Sport</a> (ICONS), which is funding and backing the lawsuit, said.
&#8220;Because the administrators don’t have the courage to do their jobs, we have to ask the federal courts to do their jobs for them,&#8221; he added.
The lawsuit requests emergency injunctive relief in advance of the MW women&#8217;s volleyball tournament in Las Vegas, which starts on Nov. 27. It also calls on either disqualifying SJSU and Fleming from competing in the tournament and/or removing the losses from the records of teams who forfeited SJSU games and therefore the wins from SJSU.
Five schools have forfeited playing SJSU in protest of the biologically male star player on the CA team. Those schools include Southern Utah University, Boise State University, the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/university-womens-team-becomes-latest-to-refuse-to-play-against-trans-identifying-male">University of Wyoming</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fourth-university-womens-team-refuses-to-play-against-trans-identifying-male">Utah State</a> University, and the University of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/university-finally-scraps-match-after-womens-team-refuses-to-play-team-whose-star-player-is-male">Nevada</a>.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/university-finally-scraps-match-after-womens-team-refuses-to-play-team-whose-star-player-is-male" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University Finally Scraps Match After Women’s Team Refuses To Play Team Whose Star Player Is Male</a>

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Collegiate Women’s Volleyball Players File Title IX Lawsuit Against Schools Over Trans Players

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Today should be “American Girls in Sports Day,” a commemorative time to celebrate all of women’s contributions to athletics.
In many ways, October 10 is the perfect date for this occasion: As the 10th day of the 10th month of the year, it represents the Roman numerals XX — the same numerals as the female sex chromosome. Earlier this year, I introduced a resolution to establish this holiday, garnering support from female athletes, prominent women’s organizations, and <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-resolution/669/cosponsors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">38 of my Senate Republican</a> colleagues.
In a divided government, however, you need support from both sides of the aisle to accomplish almost anything. And for today’s Democratic Party, recognizing women’s accomplishments is unacceptable. For them, my resolution runs afoul of their far-Left agenda to blur the line between the sexes — and ultimately erase women from public life.
In fact, when I <a href="https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/volume-170/issue-144/senate-section/article/S6075-2?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%22%5C%22American+Girls+in+Sports+Day%5C%22%22%7D&amp;s=1&amp;r=2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> for the resolution’s passage last month on the Senate floor, a Democratic colleague spoke out against it, <a href="https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/volume-170/issue-144/senate-section/article/S6075-2?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%22%5C%22American+Girls+in+Sports+Day%5C%22%22%7D&amp;s=1&amp;r=2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">calling</a> the legislation “shameful” and “designed to build a culture of fear and mistrust.”
In reality, American Girls in Sports Day should draw the support of every single Tennessean and American and unite our country around women&#8217;s incredible athletic accomplishments since the passage of Title IX, the landmark civil rights law that opened the door for so many women and young girls to participate in sports.
Don’t take my word for it: I encourage everyone to <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-resolution/669/text" target="_blank" rel="noopener">read the text</a> of the resolution. If you do, you might be wondering how anyone could oppose American Girls in Sports Day. But while Democrats’ opposition to the commemorative holiday is disturbing, it is far from surprising.
For years, the Biden-Harris administration has worked to eliminate women&#8217;s-only spaces, facilities, and sports by attacking Title IX protections.
Since its passage in 1972, Title IX has led to an explosion in women’s participation in athletics — with the number of high school female athletes <a href="https://answers.childrenshospital.org/female-athletes-qol/#:~:text=Before%20its%20passage%20in%201972,girls%20and%20college%2Dage%20women." target="_blank" rel="noopener">increasing</a> more than tenfold to more than 3 million — by guaranteeing equal resources for facilities, training, recruitment, and scholarships for female athletic programs. In the name of its radical agenda, however, the administration has tried to roll back this progress.
On the 50th anniversary of Title IX in 2022, for example, President Biden announced his administration would <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/06/23/statement-by-president-joe-biden-on-the-50th-anniversary-of-title-ix/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reinterpret</a> the law to allow biological males to play on female teams. Earlier this year, the Biden-Harris administration <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-dismantles-trump-era-title-ix-rules-sidesteps-issue-trans-athletes-girls-sports" target="_blank" rel="noopener">issued another</a> Title IX revision that allows males to access women’s locker rooms, bathrooms, and other private facilities.
As a result, more and more girls and women <a href="https://www.shewon.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">are losing out</a> on scholarships, records, and medals to males who have inherent biological advantages that undermine fair competition.
On the Senate floor, my Democratic colleague dismissed this erasure of women’s accomplishments, <a href="https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/volume-170/issue-144/senate-section/article/S6075-2?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%22%5C%22American+Girls+in+Sports+Day%5C%22%22%7D&amp;s=1&amp;r=2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claiming</a> that female athletes are more likely to be “killed by a falling object in this country” than face a biological male in competition. Apparently, that’s supposed to comfort the many women and girls across our country who have endured the humiliation, demoralization, and unfairness of losing to male competitors.
These young women deserve so much better. Thankfully, many are <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/why-didnt-you-protect-us-riley-gaines-demands-accountability-from-georgia-tech-president" target="_blank" rel="noopener">speaking out</a> to defend their hard-earned places and accomplishments in sports. Although today isn’t officially American Girls in Sports Day, we should all take a moment to reflect on all they have accomplished. In the meantime, I will continue to fight to ensure that our nation’s female athletes have the recognition, honors, and opportunities that they have worked so hard for — and deserve.
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U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn represents the state of Tennessee and serves on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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On September 19, the Associated Press published <a href="https://apnews.com/article/evangelicals-harris-trump-christians-vote-9d5cb379dc3c2fdb3f4954c556a29ec5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an article</a> with the headline, “These evangelicals for Harris are voting their values—by backing Kamala Harris.” This headline intrigued me. I wondered what values evangelical Christians could possibly share with Harris, since evangelicals live by the Bible and especially the gospel of Jesus Christ.
I have my suspicions that these “evangelicals” featured by the mainstream media are not what they seem. The intended effect here may be to cause enough doubt among true evangelical voters that they stay home on Election Day. Although those voters would not vote for Harris, they may no longer feel comfortable voting for Trump, either.
Yes, Donald J. Trump’s flaws are well known, though permit me to point out that many of his alleged and most egregious transgressions occurred while he was yet a Democrat. Since Christianity is a “come as you are” religion, most Christians understand that people are not bound by the mistakes they make during the journey of life. What some Christians struggle with is the contradictions that they see within Trump and the Republican Party more broadly. The GOP’s platform has retreated from its non-negotiable stances on the sanctity of human life and the importance of marriage as a permanent union between one man and one woman. Given the divorce rate in America, the standards were perhaps too high for the latter to carry much sway. Even so, the Republican platform more closely aligns with those convictions shaped by Biblical truths than the Democrats’ alternative.
Let’s look at Vice President Kamala Harris’s current policy stance on certain issues versus her platform on those issues during her presidential bid (she has assured her donors and followers that her values remain the same — wink-wink!) Harris supports the killing of unborn babies at any stage of development. Reproductive freedom, the euphemism for abortion, comes with no limits in her mind. In 2019, Harris is on record in an American Civil Liberties Union questionnaire stating that she would cut financial support for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and offer gender transition surgeries to border crossers. Since the Biden-Harris Administration has tried to rewrite Title IX of the Civil Rights Act to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity (now blocked by the Supreme Court), it is a safe bet that she supports men competing in women’s sports. Former President Trump has made it clear that he opposes biological males participating in women’s sports and would eliminate the expansion of the law that allows men to compete against women.
Despite Democrats and Republicans moving closer together on pivotal issues, Bible-believing Christians would still find more like-minded people in the Republican Party.
With all that in mind, the question still begs: does Harris offer a certain appeal for evangelicals, and should the Trump team be concerned? One such Harris-friendly evangelical group, Evangelicals for Harris, is targeting Christians with ads and arguments meant to persuade them that Harris is closer to their views than Trump.
I decided to dig a little deeper into Evangelicals for Harris to determine if they are disaffected Republicans who believe that Democrats best represent Christian values. What I discovered takes us back to 2008 and the decision that progressives made to go after the religious vote following the election of Barack Obama. First of all, Obama kept in place Bush’s Faith-Based and Community Initiative that allowed churches big and small to feed from the federal trough. It provided federal grants to churches who were providing social services to underserved populations. This meant that some of the black megachurches whose pastors had endorsed George W. Bush quickly switched their allegiances to Obama. Under Obama, money flowed to any organization or group that could make a religious claim. Not surprisingly, that’s when we saw the emergence of liberal evangelical groups supported by private and public funds.
Federal dollars eroded at the common understanding of evangelicalism, making the meaning fuzzier and fuzzier. It was no longer just about Jesus and the Gospel. Evangelicalism was opened up to progressive interests: its purposes now included advocacy for global warming and reproductive freedom. This attracted the dark designs of atheists bent on remaking America in their godless image, such as George Soros.
A 2010 op-ed by Mark Tooley, President of the Institute on Religion and Democracy, documented Soros’ influence well: “George Soros’s Evangelicals.” His article focused most prominently on Richard Cizik, the former head of The National Association of Evangelicals, who had represented the organization in Washington, D.C. for almost three decades. Two years earlier, Cizik had been forced to resign from that position but had reinvented himself with a return to power with a new organization he founded, New Evangelical Partnership for the Common Good. Now, Cizik serves as the executive director of Evangelicals for Democracy. Soros’s Open Society Foundation funded Cizik as well as another progressive “evangelical” Jim Wallis, the theologian who founded and edited the Sojourners Magazine and also received money from the Open Society Institute.
The influence of those like Soros wouldn’t be possible if existing evangelical powerhouses weren’t receptive to them. Using Marxist and Fabian socialists-inspired strategies, America’s churches (including the Southern Baptist, America’s largest Protestant organization) have been infiltrated with progressive evangelicals who are indeed shifting the organization and its member churches to the left. In 2019, the Southern Baptists shocked the world with its adoption of Resolution 9, “on Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality,” clearly concepts that its members were clueless about. One provision of the tortuous resolution stated that “critical race theory and intersectionality should only be employed as analytical tools subordinate to Scripture—not as transcendent ideological frameworks.’ Thereby, it brought into its midst a godless approach rooted in conflict theory. When the organization’s conservatives attempted to revisit the issue and insist on the authority of scripture unaided with Marxist tools, leaders of progressive black churches like Reverend Dwight McKissic, A Baptist Pastor, from Texas threatened to leave the organization.
Ironically, McKissic is one of the Evangelicals for Harris quoted in the AP article I mentioned earlier. According to him, there is “no moral superiority of one party over another.” For proof, McKissic cited “the GOP’s decision to ‘abandon a commitment to ban abortion with a constitutional amendment’ and to soften its stance against same-sex marriage in its party platform.” Although the authors of that article would have you believe that McKissic is an evangelical Christian who sees commonality with Harris, there is no evidence I am aware of that McKissic ever supported Trump, or the Republican Party once Obama came on the scene.
Reverend Jim Ball, the former Executive Vice President for Policy and Climate Change at the Evangelical Environmental Network, is the organizer of Evangelicals for Harris. He has stated that, “Diversity is a strength for us. We’re not looking for total unanimity. We’re looking for unity. We can be united while we have differences.”
It is these connections that lead me to believe that much-publicized evangelicals supporting Harris such as Evangelicals for Harris are, in truth, wolves in sheep’s clothing: progressives seeking to pull away Christian Trump supporters by pointing out his lack of humility, his “meanness”, waffling on issues like the sanctity of human life and the sacredness of traditional marriage. Whether they are successful at making any serious inroads into the traditional evangelical base remains to be seen. What is clear is that part of the strategy is to create disillusionment in the followers of Jesus Christ, hoping that this group will stay at home on election day. We can only pray that Christians are wise to the game.
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Dr. Carol M. Swain is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Faith and Culture (Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church) and is the author of The Adversity of Diversity: How the Supreme Court’s Decision to Remove Race from College Admissions Criteria will Doom Diversity Programs (co-authored with Mike Towle). X (carolmswain), LinkedIn (carolmswain), Instagram (drcarolmswain), GETTR (carolmswain) and Truth Social (carolmswain).
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Why ‘Evangelicals For Harris’ Are Nothing More Than Wolves In Sheep’s Clothing

Why 'Evangelicals For Harris' Are Nothing More Than Wolves In Sheep’s Clothing

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A University of Indiana-Bloomington student was awarded six figures in damages after a jury found the university had discriminated against him based on his sex.
The student, who will be referred to as John Doe, appears to be the first student who has won on Title IX grounds – that is, he was found to be discriminated against specifically because he was a male and not on the grounds that the school breached its contract with him.
In June 2020, John was a student at IU and matched with a woman who will be referred to as Jane Doe on a dating app. On the evening of June 16, 2020, Jane texted John and agreed to come to his house for a date, even after John suggested meeting somewhere else. Jane arrived at John’s house, and the two talked for a bit. They had two glasses of wine, including a glass Jane had poured for each of them.
Just after midnight, Jane received a phone call from a friend asking if she needed a ride home, but she said no. She texted the friend about 40 minutes later to say “looks like I’ll be here a hot minute,” according to court documents reviewed by The Daily Wire.
Jane would later claim that immediately after this, she “blacked out” and didn’t remember anything that happened – and suggested that John had drugged her.
John says in his lawsuit against the university that Jane showed no signs of incapacitation or being blacked out – which is a state of mind where the brain doesn’t form short-term memories, but people in such a state can appear completely coherent. He said Jane started kissing him, and the two went up to his room where they, two math majors, completed complex math problems. The two then laid down in John’s bed and, according to John, Jane initiated sexual contact with him, removing her shirt and bra and initiating kissing.
John said in his lawsuit that he asked to stop, feeling they were moving too fast. He went to the bathroom and returned to find Jane asleep in his bed, so he got into bed next to her and fell asleep as well.
At some point, Jane started receiving calls from her roommate but wouldn’t wake up when John tried to let her know. He said he eventually answered the call and said Jane was asleep and didn’t want to talk. Jane’s roommate told him that she was coming to get Jane.
This roommate later said they found Jane naked in John’s bed and that she appeared “out of it.” With John’s help, the roommate and another friend gathered Jane’s things and left John’s house.
Early the next morning, John texted Jane to say he was “sorry about last night,” referring to the awkwardness of Jane leaving his home. Jane claimed she didn’t know what happened and that her roommate was mad at her. Jane claimed she “did not know how she got that drunk” and told John she was “really sorry,” according to court documents.
The two discussed the events of the previous night and Jane’s level of intoxication. About seven hours after their encounter, Jane texted John, saying, “You do realize you sexually assaulted me, right? I just talked to my roommate and got a much better idea of what happened last night.”
John didn’t respond.
A couple of days later, Jane went to the hospital for a rape test kit and drug test. She then reported John to the police and IU. Police investigated, and no charges were brought, but IU went ahead with its own investigation that didn’t allow John full use of counsel, denied him the ability to cross-examine witnesses, and gave him only a single, time-limited chance to see the evidence against him.
He was found not responsible for drugging Jane – and she never turned over the results of her drug test – but was still found responsible for sexually assaulting her, even by her own admission she only had 2-and-a-half glasses of wine.
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John sued the university, and the case went all the way to a jury trial, which ruled in favor of John and awarded him $136,782.60, which, according to his attorney, Jonathan Little, is less than what he paid in legal fees.
Little told The Daily Wire that he typically represents victims but has been taking cases involving false accusations of men on college campuses.
“The process given to these men is just a farce,” he said, noting that the current campus climate at IU and other schools “gives the impression that any young lady can run to Indiana University and cry rape.”
He added that IU spent the trial going over its policies, essentially arguing that it could follow its own policies and not the law set forth under Title IX.
“IU’s hubris lost them this case and I hope that what we did is replicable – I believe that it is – and I hope that other lawyers can look at this and do the same thing,” he told The Daily Wire.
The university did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry prior to press time.
Edit: An earlier version of this article identified the school as Illinois University when it is Indiana University.

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Title IX Victory: Falsely Accused Student Awarded Six-Figure Settlement In Sexual Assault Case

Title IX Victory: Student Awarded Six Figures For Sex Discrimination After Sexual Assault Allegation

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The Democrat’s <a href="https://democrats.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/FINAL-MASTER-PLATFORM.pdf">2024 platform</a> promises to remove constitutional due process protections for college students after the Trump administration ensured them.
In a section about President Joe Biden purportedly protecting women, the platform said Biden had “restor[ed] and strengthen[ed] protections under Title IX, including explicit protections for LGBTQI+ students,” even though those “protections” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-supreme-court-blocks-bidens-title-ix-rules-that-allowed-men-in-womens-sports" target="_blank" rel="noopener">have been blocked</a> by the Supreme Court.
Title IX is a federal statute that prohibits entities that receive public funding from discriminating based on sex.
Before the Supreme Court stepped in, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-admins-title-ix-rules-that-would-allow-men-in-womens-sports-blocked-in-4-more-states" target="_blank" rel="noopener">26 states</a> had blocked the rules from going into effect.
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Further down in the platform, Democrats attack former President Donald Trump for “roll[ing] back campus sexual assault protections, making it even harder for survivors to get the justice they deserve.”
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Dem Party platform: 
DeVos TIX regs&#8211;which mandated a hearing, x-examinatom, &amp; access to all evidence the univ gathered in its investigation&#8211;&#8220;rolled back campus sexual assault protections, making it even harder for survivors to get the justice they deserve.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/vj2Y533lS7">pic.twitter.com/vj2Y533lS7</a>
— KC Johnson (@kcjohnson9) <a href="https://twitter.com/kcjohnson9/status/1825576516182229280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 19, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The platform assumes that any woman making an accusation is automatically a “survivor,” even <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/she-told-cops-she-was-raped-text-messages-showed-ashe-schow" target="_blank" rel="noopener">though</a> <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/she-accused-him-rape-text-messages-proved-it-was-ashe-schow" target="_blank" rel="noopener">countless</a> <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/2362959/judge-accused-student-faced-inadequate-campus-sex-assault-process/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stories</a> <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/he-was-accused-of-sexual-assault-by-a-woman-whose-boyfriend-later-admitted-lying-he-just-won-a-5-3m-settlement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">from</a> <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-evidence-contradicted-their-claims-but-princeton-still-found-him-responsible-now-hes-suing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">colleges</a> <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/she-claimed-he-sexually-assaulted-her-months-after-he-declined-to-date-her-he-was-expelled-despite-her-own-witnesses-backing-his-story" target="_blank" rel="noopener">and</a> <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/they-were-accused-of-rape-and-had-their-names-printed-in-the-school-paper-the-school-just-paid-them-450000" target="_blank" rel="noopener">universities</a> show this is not always the case. And when the platform says Trump “rolled back campus sexual assault protections,” it means removing due process protections such as cross-examination, the accused having access to all the evidence against them, and ensuring the accused is informed of the specific allegations against them, among others.
Schools have repeatedly lost in court for not providing such constitutionally required protections for accused students. In 2020, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled that colleges were required to provide “some form of cross-examination and a live, adversarial hearing during which he or she can put on a defense and challenge evidence against him or her,” <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2020/06/02/federal-appeals-court-defines-fairness-title-ix-policies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to Inside Higher Ed</a>.
Further, “getting the justice they deserve” refers to an accuser being able to get anyone they accuse kicked off campus no matter what the evidence shows.
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Trump’s Education Secretary, Betsy DeVos, properly implemented the policies that included basic due process protections for students accused of a serious crime. Before that, the Obama administration used a non-binding “Dear Colleague Letter” to drastically change the campus landscape and ensure almost anyone accused of sexual assault would be severely punished without the chance to defend themselves.
Because the Obama administration didn’t use the proper procedure to implement its rules, DeVos was able to suspend them and write proper rules using the proper procedure, which took years. When Biden became president, he had to use the same procedure to implement his own rules, which removed the protections put in place by DeVos and again expanded the definition of Title IX to include men who identify as women. Those rules are currently being blocked by the Supreme Court, while every challenge to DeVos’ rules was dismissed or withdrawn.

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Democrats’ 2024 Platform Seeks To Eliminate Due Process Protections For College Students

Democrats' 2024 Platform Seeks To Eliminate Due Process Protections For College Students

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The Supreme Court, in a 5-4 opinion posted late Friday, has blocked the Biden Administration’s Title IX rules that would force schools that receive public funding to allow trans-identifying males into girls’ bathrooms, locker rooms, and sports.
The rules went into effect on August 1 for all but 26 states plus hundreds of additional schools, and expanded the definition of “sex” to include “sexual orientation and gender identity.” Title IX was originally implemented in 1972 and prohibited schools receiving public funding from discriminating against students based on sex.
In a 12-page <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/24a78_f2ah.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ruling</a>, the Supreme Court granted a temporary stay of the guidelines by siding with multiple other lower courts, which ruled against the Biden administration’s attempts to sever the sexual orientation and gender identity portions of the new rules from the guidelines as a whole, and allow the rest of the rewritten rules to go into effect. While the focus has been on transgender issues, the remaining rule changes eviscerate due process protections for students accused of sexual assault, protections that had been put into place under the Trump administration.
SCOTUS agreed with the lower courts, writing that “the new definition of sex discrimination is intertwined with and affects many other provisions of the  new rule,” meaning it couldn’t be severed from the rest of the guidelines.
Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, Jackson, and Gorsuch – a Trump appointee – dissented.
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The block is only temporary as the legal system works slowly, and the Biden administration is appealing decisions in the lower courts.
On August 1, the day the new rules were supposed to go into effect, former President Donald Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-promises-to-ban-men-from-womens-sports-end-bidens-title-ix-rewrite-on-day-one" target="_blank" rel="noopener">promised</a> he would repeal the Biden administration’s rules on “day one” of his administration.
Trump posted on Truth Social: “I WILL KEEP MEN OUT OF WOMEN’S SPORTS!” and told radio hosts Clay Travis and Buck Sexton that he would do so on the first day of his administration.
“President Trump just pledged to all of us on @clayandbuck that men will not be allowed to compete against women in sports when he is elected president,” Travis said on X. “He promises to take care of it on day one and end Kamala and Biden’s new Title IX policies allowing this to happen.”
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President Trump just pledged to all of us on <a href="https://twitter.com/clayandbuck?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@clayandbuck</a> that men will not be allowed to compete against women in sports when he is elected president. He promises to take care of it on day one and end Kamala and Biden’s new Title IX policies allowing this to happen.
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) <a href="https://twitter.com/ClayTravis/status/1819079232221598013?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 1, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Twenty-six states previously blocked the Biden administration’s rules, with U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty, a Trump appointee, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/judge-blocks-bidens-transgender-title-ix-rules-in-4-states" target="_blank" rel="noopener">calling</a> the new rules an “abuse of power” and a “threat to democracy.”
“Title IX was written and intended to protect biological women from discrimination,” Doughty <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.lawd.205659/gov.uscourts.lawd.205659.53.0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>. “Such purpose makes it difficult to sincerely argue that, at the time of enactment, ‘discrimination on the basis of sex’ included gender identity, sex stereotypes, sexual orientation, or sex characteristics. Enacting the changes in the Final Rule would subvert the original purpose of Title IX: protecting biological females from discrimination.”
Other judges ruled similarly.
In his ruling, U.S. District Judge John Broomes, another Trump appointee, included <a href="https://www.scag.gov/media/pskl4phx/ks-v-u-s-dept-of-education-list-of-schools-enjoined.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a massive list</a> of K-12 schools and universities across the country where the rules would also be blocked. That list came from schools attended by children of the defendants in that lawsuit, Moms for Liberty, and members of the Young America’s Foundation.

Supreme Court Blocks Biden’s Title IX Rules That Allowed Men In Women’s Sports

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Former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> promised on Thursday that he would ban men competing in women&#8217;s sports, telling radio hosts Clay Travis and Buck Sexton that he planned to put an end to President Joe Biden&#8217;s Title IX rewrite &#8220;on day one.&#8221;
Travis shared the news in a post to X, saying, &#8220;President Trump just pledged to all of us on @clayandbuck that men will not be allowed to compete against women in sports when he is elected president. He promises to take care of it on day one and end Kamala and Biden’s new Title IX policies allowing this to happen.&#8221;
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President Trump just pledged to all of us on <a href="https://twitter.com/clayandbuck?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@clayandbuck</a> that men will not be allowed to compete against women in sports when he is elected president. He promises to take care of it on day one and end Kamala and Biden’s new Title IX policies allowing this to happen.
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) <a href="https://twitter.com/ClayTravis/status/1819079232221598013?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 1, 2024</a></blockquote>
Trump also posted on Truth Social on Thursday, &#8220;I WILL KEEP MEN OUT OF WOMEN’S SPORTS!&#8221;
Trump&#8217;s promise comes on the heels of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/female-olympic-boxer-hammered-by-boxer-who-failed-gender-test-quits-match-in-tears" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Olympic controversy</a> after Italian Angela Carini pulled out of her fight with Algerian boxer Imane Khelif — who was disqualified from the 2023 world championships in New Delhi after the International Boxing Association declared that Khelif had &#8220;XY chromosomes&#8221; and elevated testosterone levels — after less than one minute.
As announced earlier in the summer, the official 2024 GOP platform addresses recent moves — supported by President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and a majority of elected Democrats — to allow trans-identifying males to compete in women&#8217;s athletics.
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&#8220;We will keep men out of women&#8217;s sports, ban taxpayer funding for sex-change surgeries, and stop taxpayer-funded schools from promoting gender transition, reverse Biden&#8217;s radical rewrite of Title IX education regulations, and restore protections for women and girls.&#8221;
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The <a href="https://twitter.com/GOP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GOP</a> platform reflects the majority of Americans who want to protect women’s sports. We must fight back against Far Left Democrats and their radical woke agenda that steals opportunities away from women.
We will also cut federal funding for any school that pushes woke… <a href="https://t.co/Q6SkA9622Z">pic.twitter.com/Q6SkA9622Z</a>
— Elise Stefanik (@EliseStefanik) <a href="https://twitter.com/EliseStefanik/status/1811456123565687269?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 11, 2024</a></blockquote>

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Trump Promises To Ban Men From Women’s Sports, End Biden’s Title IX Rewrite ‘On Day One’

Trump Promises To Ban Men From Women's Sports, End Biden's Title IX Rewrite 'On Day One'

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A district court in Alabama has blocked the Biden administration’s guidelines that force schools that receive public funding to allow trans-identifying males into girls’ bathrooms, locker rooms, and sports.
Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina asked for an emergency stay of the rules, which were set to go into effect on Thursday after previously being rejected. The stay was granted late Wednesday evening.
History professor and author K.C. Johnson posted the ruling on X.
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CA11 grants an administrative stay of the Biden/Lhamon TIX regs in AL/FL/GA/FL. 
Accelerated briefing schedule. 
Still nothing from CA10, SCOTUS. <a href="https://t.co/6onqtr0Rko">pic.twitter.com/6onqtr0Rko</a>
— KC Johnson (@kcjohnson9) <a href="https://twitter.com/kcjohnson9/status/1818761097123709178?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 31, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Earlier in the day, a federal judge had denied the states’ motion to block the new guidelines, CBS 42 <a href="https://www.cbs42.com/alabama-news/alabama-judge-allows-new-title-ix-rule-protecting-lgbtq-students-to-move-forward-in-4-states/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. However, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals <a href="https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2024/07/31/us-appeals-court-sides-with-florida-halts-title-ix-gender-identity-rule/">granted</a> the states’ appeal of the motion, and the case will move forward with an accelerated briefing schedule.
The Biden administration’s rules have now been blocked in 26 states. Oklahoma blocked the rules on Wednesday, just one day before they were to take effect.
On Wednesday, Judge Jodi Dishman, a Trump-nominated judge, <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.okwd.126841/gov.uscourts.okwd.126841.48.0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ruled</a> in favor of Oklahoma’s motion for a preliminary injunction against the federal guidelines. Dishman issued her ruling even after numerous blue states filed an amicus brief arguing against the injunction.
In addition to the rules being blocked in 26 states, dozens of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bidens-title-ix-rules-allowing-men-in-womens-sports-blocked-in-21-states-where-things-stand" target="_blank" rel="noopener">K-12 schools and universities</a> across the country have been blocked from implementing the rules.
Title IX is a federal statute that bans sex discrimination, but the Biden administration has expanded the definition to include sexual identity and gender identification. Courts across the country have determined that this expanded definition is wrong.
On June 13, U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty, a Trump appointee, issued <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/judge-blocks-bidens-transgender-title-ix-rules-in-4-states" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a preliminary injunction</a> against the Biden rules, calling them an “abuse of power” and a “threat to democracy.” His ruling blocked the new guidance from taking effect in Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Montana.
“Title IX was written and intended to protect biological women from discrimination,” Doughty <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.lawd.205659/gov.uscourts.lawd.205659.53.0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>. “Such purpose makes it difficult to sincerely argue that, at the time of enactment, ‘discrimination on the basis of sex’ included gender identity, sex stereotypes, sexual orientation, or sex characteristics. Enacting the changes in the Final Rule would subvert the original purpose of Title IX: protecting biological females from discrimination.”
On June 17, U.S. District Judge Danny Reeves, a George W. Bush appointee, issued <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/court-issues-preliminary-injunction-on-bidens-title-ix-rewrite-stops-it-in-6-states" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a preliminary injunction</a> blocking the rules in Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. A few weeks later, on July 2, U.S. District Judge John Broomes, another Trump appointee, issued a similar ruling blocking the new Title IX rules in Alaska, Kansas, Utah, and Wyoming.
Broomes’ <a href="https://www.bloomberglaw.com/public/desktop/document/KansasStateofetalvUnitedStatesDepartmentofEducationetalDocketNo52?doc_id=X7VSH1UVO6B9K1AAI088P6TS9IF" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ruling</a> went further, however,  and included <a href="https://www.scag.gov/media/pskl4phx/ks-v-u-s-dept-of-education-list-of-schools-enjoined.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a massive list</a> of K-12 schools and universities across the country where the rules would also be blocked. That list came from schools attended by children of the defendants in that lawsuit, Moms for Liberty, and members of the Young America’s Foundation.
On July 11, U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, another Trump appointee, issued another ruling that blocked the Biden Title IX guidance in Texas, Newsweek <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/transgender-policy-texas-schools-donald-trump-kacsmaryk-title-ix-1924387" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> at the time.
On July 24, U.S. District Judge Rodney Sippel, a Clinton appointee, <a href="https://t.co/mdh7ZBIJAZ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blocked</a> the rules in Arkansas, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota.
That brought the total number of states where the rules can’t be implemented to 21, and Oklahoma now brings the number to 22.
The Biden administration has argued to at least implement the Title IX guidance that doesn’t include transgender capitulations – such as the provisions regarding reduced due process protections – in the states that have blocked the rules so far, The Hill <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq/4787089-doj-asks-supreme-court-restore-title-ix/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
In the rulings against the regulations, however, judges have noted that because of the Biden administration’s redefinition of the word “sex” to include gender identity, transgender issues can’t be carved out from the rules as a whole.
“[T]he fact that the definition permeates the entire Rule, the Court concludes that it would be a nearly impossible task to excise the remaining regulations without also eliminating those regulations that involve sex discrimination,” Judge Sippel wrote in his ruling. Other judges wrote similar statements.

Biden Admin’s Title IX Rules That Would Allow Men In Women’s Sports Blocked In 4 More States

Biden Admin's Title IX Rules That Would Allow Men In Women's Sports Blocked In 4 More States

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