The Texas Attorney General’s Office, which is continuing operations under interim Attorney General John Scott during Ken Paxton’s Senate impeachment trial, has filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration over its interpretation of Title IX law.
The Biden administration expanded its interpretation of Title IX to ban discrimination based on gender identity, a legally, culturally, and scientifically hot topic.
Under the new interpretation, Texas schools could lose federal funding after the state legislature passed a bill barring transgender men from playing in K-12 women’s athletics.
Texas is hoping to challenge the legal expansion and reinterpretation of Title IX with a lawsuit Gov. Greg Abbott says is a challenge to federal abuse.
“Texas is challenging this blatant attempt to misuse federal regulatory power to force K-12 schools, colleges, and universities in our state to accept and implement ‘transgender’ ideology — in violation of state law — by misusing the Title IX statute to threaten the withholding of federal education funds,” Abbott stated in a press release.
The Texas Attorney General’s Office also released a statement slamming the Biden Administration’s interpretation of Title IX as an “illegal effort to force schools to adopt ‘transgender’ ideology in schools or risk losing federal education funds.”
LGBT activists said that the state was attempting to target LGBT youth. Venting frustration on Twitter, University of Houston professor and author Bob Buzzanco claimed Abbott was cruel for fighting for women’s only sports.
“Hilarious that a party against Title IX, that denies fundamental women’s rights, that is defunding schools like a drunk sailor, that incites hatred of anyone who doesn’t look like you, can now pretend to give a single care about women in sports. You’re cruel and bigoted. ”
The Attorney General’s office noted in the lawsuit that the suit is the 50th lawsuit Texas has filed against the Biden Administration, marking a milestone in Texas’ aggressive legal battle against the Democratic administration.
