Friday, news broke that a transgirl who had been working so hard at summer soccer had been denied a spot on the girl’s team because those evil Republicans passed a bill that sorts sports by birth sex. Her parents are not just suing; they are asking the court to stay the law while the case creeps through the courts. The right judge on the right day might do that or not. Like Winnie the Pooh’s Bees, you can never tell with judges.
Tirrell and her parents haven’t given up hope. They, along with another transgender teen girl and her parents, are suing New Hampshire to block enforcement of the law. Their attorneys from three law firms that advocate for the rights of LGBTQ+ people filed a complaint Friday morning in federal court, asking a judge to step in quickly.
Will a judge step in quickly? I’m sure that’s been the plan since it was signed. Someone, somewhere, was looking for someone to sue- grooming them even. And for all we know, Chris Sununu might have been in the shadows hoping for that. My guess is that it’ll happen, but the timing is interesting. SCOTUS just batted down a Biden Admin effort to save something of their unconstitutional TITLE IX rewrite. The thing a federal judge would need to tell the state it can’t do what it did.
The Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision denied the Biden administration’s emergency request to partially reinstate its new Title IX rule.
The sweeping changes to Title IX, which protects against sex discrimination in schools, cover sexual orientation and gender identity for the first time. Various Republican state attorneys general have persuaded judges to block implementation in roughly half the country.
The Biden administration contended those injunctions went too far, urging the Supreme Court to narrow them to primarily block the prohibitions on gender identity discrimination at the center of the challenges — allowing the other changes to go into effect.
Those updates, which were set to go into effect on Aug. 1, span from accommodations for pregnant students to retaliation protections to recordkeeping requirements.
“On this limited record and in its emergency applications, the Government has not provided this Court a sufficient basis to disturb the lower courts’ interim conclusions that the three provisions found likely to be unlawful are intertwined with and affect other provisions of the rule,” according to the court’s unsigned order.
Like I said, you can never tell with judges, so we’ll have to wait a few days … to see if Sununu’s AG even tries to defend the law.
