Chalkbeat - A federal judge in Kentucky has vacated the Biden administration’s Title IX rules nationwide, meaning they are no longer in effect anywhere in the country. The decision released Thursday represents a blow to LGBTQ students and their allies. They believed the new Title IX rules could serve as a bulwark against state laws allowing teachers to not use students’ chosen names and pronouns and barring transgender students from using bathrooms that align with their gender identity.
The ruling from U.S. District Court Judge Danny Reeves of the Eastern District of Kentucky comes on the cusp of a second Trump administration, which observers expected would rescind the rules through a longer, more bureaucratic process. President-elect Donald Trump made opposition to transgender rights a centerpiece of his 2024 campaign.
Reeves’ decision means that Title IX rules finalized in 2020 under the first Trump administration are once again the law of the land. Those rules, developed under then-Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, were controversial in their own right because they changed the sexual assault complaint process in ways that favored the accused. Those rules assumed that Title IX treated sex as binary and declined to further define it. In response to public comments at the time, the department said people of any gender identity should be protected from harassment on the basis of sex but did not single out transgender individuals for protections.
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