The Department of Education has just announced it is postponing the projected date to release its two Title IX regulations to October 2023. Title IX was enacted to promote equal opportunity for women and girls in athletics. The proposed Biden Education Department rule would depart from those foundational principles—and undermine the equal opportunity that Title IX has long secured—by redefining sex to embrace undefined conceptions of gender identity.
On May 15 the Attorneys General of Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and West Virginia sent a 17-page letter to the Department of Education. The letter concludes: “The Department should abandon the proposed rule.”
