As President Joe Biden’s administration continues its efforts to redefine gender norms using public policy, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall filed a federal lawsuit on Monday challenging the Biden administration’s recently-announced Title IX rule.
Biden’s proposed change would change the meaning of “sex” to “gender identity” and effectively abolish female-only bathrooms and locker rooms in schools across America.
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall filed suit on behalf of Alabama, joined by Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina.
“Since taking office, Joe Biden has brazenly attempted to use federal funding to force radical gender ideology onto states that reject it at the ballot box,” Marshall said. “Now our schoolchildren are the target. The threat is that if Alabama’s public schools and universities do not conform, then the federal government will take away our funding. Rest assured, Biden will not be successful.”
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“Alabama parents do not share the Biden Administration’s goal of gender lessness in our schools. They remember what happened in Loudon County, Virginia, and in other schools across the country when governments sacrificed the needs and concerns of every female student to accommodate a few males. That is why Alabamians have supported laws that protect girls’ sports and girls’ bathrooms, as well as laws that prohibit gender ideology from being taught in the classrooms of our youngest pupils.”
“I am pleased to be among the first to challenge this ill-conceived rule that would infringe on the constitutional rights of students, parents, faculty, and the State of Alabama itself,” Marshall stated. “This rule highlights Biden’s seemingly endless cascade of failures when it comes to looking out for everyday Americans.”
“I expect the rule to be struck down swiftly.”
In 2022, the State of Alabama sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture over an identical gender-based rule, that threatened the State’s food-stamp and school lunch funding for failure to comply.
The federal government later conceded the limited reach of its policy, and the suit was dismissed.
Austen Shipley is a staff writer for Yellowhammer News.
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