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CPC Applauds Kentucky Judge’s Injunction Against Biden’s Title IX Reinterpretation
June 17, 2024
CONTACT: Richard Nelson (richard@commonwealthpolicy.org)
(Frankfort, KY) – CPC applauds Chief Judge Danny Reeves of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky for protecting girls’ sports. His injunction was in response to State of Tennessee v. Cardona, which challenges the Biden Administration’s attempts to rewrite Title IX, including transgender athletes as a protected category. CPC Executive Director Richard Nelson said, “It’s impossible to protect men and women from discrimination if you’re not willing to define what a man or woman is. The Biden Administration has replaced a scientific understanding of the human person with an ideological one. Ultimately, Biden’s directive undoes hard-fought Title IX protections which gave women and girls a level playing field for school sports.”
Judge Reeves is exactly right when he says, “There are two sexes: male and female,” and “the new rule contravenes the plain text of Title IX by redefining ‘sex’ to include gender identity, violates government employees’ First Amendment rights, and is the result of arbitrary and capricious rulemaking.” This is basic biological reality, and our nation’s lawmakers have a moral obligation to uphold it.
In this case, attorneys for Alliance Defending Freedom are representing a 15-year-old girl in West Virginia who was forced to compete against biological males in track-and-field. Christian Educators, an association of Christian public school teachers, is also a plaintiff in the case. Kentucky is the second state where a judge has issued an injunction against the Biden Administration’s new policy.
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