Texas Wants to Block Biden From Changing Gender Rules

newsweek.com:

Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against the Biden admin­is­tra­tion on Monday in an effort to block President Joe Biden from expanding federal sex discrimination protections under Title IX to include transgender students.Title IX prohibits sex-based discrimination at federally funded colleges and K-12 schools.

Earlier this month, the Biden administration updated the law to expand protections for LGBTQ+ and pregnant students. The Biden administration's expansion comes in response to a 2020 U.S.

Supreme Court case related to workplace discrimination in which it ruled in Bostock v. Clayton County that Title VII, a civil rights law that bars employment discrimination on the basis of sex, applied to gay and transgender workers, The Texas Tribune reported.Paxton announced on Monday that he's suing the Biden administration to block the expanded definition as he took aim at the inclusion of "one's self-professed 'gender identity.'""Texas will not allow Joe Biden to rewrite Title IX at whim, destroying legal protections for women in furtherance of his radical obsession with gender ideology.

This attempt to subvert federal law is plainly illegal, undemocratic, and divorced from reality. Texas will always take the lead to oppose Biden's extremist, destructive policies that put women at risk," Paxton said in a statement announcing the lawsuit.The attorney general also claimed the protections "force schools to accommodate" transgender students, adding that if schools do not comply federal funding would be withheld."The new rule contorts these protections for women by forcing schools to accommodate the wishes of men claiming to identify as women (or "transgender") to enter female-only spaces and join female-only organizations.