Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti achieved a significant legal victory against the Biden Administration's Title IX rules. The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky ruled that the U.S. Department of Education's Title IX regulations exceeded federal authority and violated constitutional principles.
The contested rules would have impacted girls' privacy in locker rooms and bathrooms and mandated the use of pronouns not aligning with students’ biological sex by teachers and administrators. Previously, the district court had preliminarily blocked these rules in Tennessee and its coalition states last June. The recent order extends this by overturning the Biden Administration's Title IX rules nationwide.
Attorney General Skrmetti remarked, “This is a huge win for Tennessee, for common sense, and for women and girls across America.” He further stated that "the court’s ruling is yet another repudiation of the Biden administration’s relentless push to impose a radical gender ideology through unconstitutional and illegal rulemaking."