Four More States Sue Over Title IX LGBTQ Protections

CBS News reports:

Targeting issues about sexual orientation and gender identity, Florida joined three other states Monday in filing a federal lawsuit challenging a new Biden administration rule about sex-based discrimination in education programs.

The lawsuit, filed by the attorneys general of Florida, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina and four organizations, seeks to block the rule that would help carry out Title IX, a landmark 1972 law that bars discrimination in education programs based on sex.

Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody [photo] told The News Service of Florida that the rule “is really a radical departure from what Title IX was originally meant to do.”

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Yesterday Texas AG Ken Paxton and Stephen Miller’s America First Legal also filed a joint lawsuit against the new rules. Last week Louisiana’s AG was the first to vow defiance of the protections. Among the groups joining the suit led by Florida is the anti-LGBTQ organization, Parents Defending Education.