A few months back, the Biden Administration announced its intent to extend a gender-bender-related US Supreme Court ruling on Title VII to Title IX. Anyone who refused to bow to the new rule would lose lunch money for poor kids. A Federal Judge just said, give it back.
A federal judge in Tennessee has temporarily blocked Biden administration directives allowing transgender workers and students to use bathrooms and locker rooms and join sports teams that correspond with their gender identity.
Judge Charles Atchley Jr. of the Eastern District of Tennessee ruled on Friday that the administration’s directives would make it impossible for some states to enforce their own laws on transgender athletes’ participation in girls’ sports and access to bathrooms.
Back in April, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said last June that Title IX “protected” trans students and that the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) would “fully enforce” this interpretation “in education programs and activities that receive federal financial assistance from the department.”
By late May, it was a done deal, and not just concerning schools receiving federal food aid.
Under this new demand, establishments that accept any federal food funding, including food stamps, must also allow males who claim to be female to access female private spaces, such as showers, bathrooms, and sleeping areas. Such organizations must also follow protocols such as requiring staff to use
inaccurate pronouns to describe transgender people and allowing male staff to dress as women while on the job.
They did it even though it would never stand up to Judicial scrutiny. Any compelled speech case would strike down the mandated pronouns provisions, and we know the court will ax the funding prohibition against religious groups. They’ve made it clear that a program of such scop cannot discriminate against groups or schools based on faith, and trans bathrooms and pronouns are not universally embraced by Christians and in no circumstance of which I am aware by Muslims.
They did it anyway.
And now a judge in Tennessee, responding to a lawsuit by twenty Republican State Attorneys General, has blocked the rule. In part because it interferes with existing state statutes. But in greater measure, because it is based on the Bidenistas’ interpretation’ of “Bostock v. Clayton County [which] said employers cannot terminate workers because of their gender identity or sexuality.”
Atchley on Friday agreed with the states, writing in his ruling that the Supreme Court in Bostock “explicitly refused to decide whether ‘sex-segregated bathrooms, locker rooms, and dress codes’ violate Title VII.”
The ruling only blocks implementation while the case winds its way up the judicial food chain, but for now, Biden can’t steal poor kid’s lunch money which will make many Democrats unhappy. For all their talk about being the voice of our most vulnerable, everything they do makes them more vulnerable.
Something they can perhaps discuss with those poor students … over lunch?