15 states threaten legal action against Biden admin to protect ‘integrity of women’s sports’

EXCLUSIVE: Montana is main 14 states in threatening authorized motion towards the Division of Training in an effort to “shield the integrity of ladies’s sports activities.”

“We’re ready to take authorized motion to uphold Title IX’s plain which means and safeguard the integrity of ladies’s sports activities,” Montana Legal professional Normal Austin Knudsen wrote to the Civil Rights Division of the Biden Training Division in a letter signed by 14 different state attorneys common Tuesday.

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The attorneys common wrote that they’re “alarmed in regards to the Division of Training’s intent to suggest new laws implementing Title IX” and argued the division “has failed to supply enough justification for partaking in a brand new rule-making.”

“We due to this fact urge the Division to halt its effort and never disturb the present Title IX laws,” the letter says. “The Division must also not illegally re-write Title IX to incorporate gender identification. Make the precise selection for the rule of legislation in addition to college students, dad and mom, lecturers and faculties.”

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Along with Knudsen, the letter was additionally signed by the attorneys common of Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota and Texas.

“We’re additionally involved that an interpretation of Title IX that goes past intercourse to incorporate gender identification has and will probably be utilized by to improperly intrude into parental decision-making concerning the schooling and upbringing of their kids,” Knudsen and the attorneys common wrote. “An interpretation of Title IX that helps such radical positions runs opposite to the function of the Division of Training, the textual content of Title IX, and fogeys’ constitutional proper to determine what’s in the most effective pursuits of their kids.”

President Biden signed an government order in March that outlined plans to assessment Title IX laws associated to gender identification.

Training Secretary Miguel Cardona visits Higher Darby, Pennsylvania, on April 6, 2021.
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“The Government Order charged the Division of Training with reviewing the numerous charges at which college students who determine as LGBTQ+ are topic to sexual harassment, together with sexual violence,” the White Home stated in a assertion. “The Division of Training has introduced that it intends to suggest amendments to its Title IX laws this yr.”

The Division of Training didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark from Fox Information Digital on the multi-state letter. 

The rift between the Biden administration and the 15 attorneys common comes as Republicans throughout the nation have tried to push again towards states and universities which have allowed people who had been born male however “determine” as feminine to compete towards feminine scholar athletes.

One such high-profile case includes College of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas, who was born male, being allowed to compete towards feminine swimmers.

Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines, who lately tied with Thomas for fifth place within the 200-yard freestyle NCAA swimming championships, says the “majority” of females are “not OK with the trajectory” that feminine sports activities are taking.

“Nearly all of us feminine athletes, or females generally, actually, should not OK with this, they usually’re not OK with the trajectory of this and the way that is going and the way it might find yourself in just a few years,” Gaines stated, referring to the NCAA’s unwillingness to alter the principles in an effort to guard feminine aggressive sports activities.

Gaines stated she is aware of a number of ladies who really feel the identical means she does, however they’re “scared” to talk out towards transgender females collaborating in ladies’s sports activities due to right this moment’s tradition, and “they do not wish to danger their future.”

Fox Information’ Kyle Morris contributed to this report.