CV NEWS FEED // Pro-woman activists are celebrating the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to block the Department of Justice’s request for an emergency reinstatement of its Title IX rules, which would allow biological males to use female bathrooms and locker rooms.
In an X post, retired collegiate swimmer and pro-woman advocate Riley Gaines celebrated the decision.
As CatholicVote previously reported, Title IX policies were created to protect against sex discrimination in schools. The Biden Administration’s Department of Education, however, attempted to change the policies to include rules against discrimination of “sexual orientation and gender identity.”
The Hill states that multiple Republican state attorneys sued and requested injunctions against the rewrite, which was announced in April. Several lower courts, siding with the Republican state attorneys, blocked the new Title IX rules, preventing the new policy from being enforced in Tennessee, Louisiana, and eight other states.
In response, the Biden Administration made an emergency request to the Supreme Court to bypass the rulings, but the Supreme Court denied the request on Aug. 16.
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem hailed the ruling as “great news.”
“Mediocre men should NEVER steal opportunities from exceptional women,” she posted to her X account. “SCOTUS sided with the states and blocked the Biden-Harris unconstitutional rewrite of Title IX. That’s great news for young women everywhere!”
Former US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos also responded to the ruling, saying, “VICTORY! The Supreme Court has ruled what we all know to be true: the Biden-Harris radical rewrite of #TitleIX is illegal. They should withdraw their anti-woman regulation immediately.”
However, the parental rights activism group Courage is a Habit warned against giving “the recent Supreme Court win more weight than it deserves,” explaining in an X post that the law did not “ban the transgender agenda; it simply prevents it from becoming federal law.”
The group explained that the ruling does not change anything if a state already allows men to use women’s bathrooms. The ruling also does not prevent public schools from teaching about and encouraging transgenderism. The ruling does, however, protect states and schools that do not allow men to have access to women’s spaces, among other protections.
