FORT WORTH, Texas – A federal district court Wednesday permanently rejected the Biden administration’s illegal rewrite of Title IX across the country in the lawsuit Carroll Independent School District v. United States Department of Education. Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys represent the school district, which challenged the previous administration’s attempt to redefine “sex” in Title IX to include “gender identity,” requiring schools to ignore the biological distinction between male and female in favor of “an individual’s sense of their [sic] gender.” As the court recognized, the attempted rewrite has “no basis in reality.” 

ADF Senior Counsel Matt Bowman:  “Universities are meant to be a marketplace of ideas where students can learn to respect diverse opinions and beliefs and not have to fear punishment or harassment because of their own values. The Department of Education under President Trump rightfully updated its regulations to ensure that institutions of higher education have policies that align with the First Amendment....” 

ADF Senior Counsel Matt Sharp:  “Denying the biological truth that we are either male or female hurts real people, especially vulnerable children. Now and always, young people deserve the loving embrace of family members who guide them toward this truth rather than be subjected to risky, often irreversible, and life-altering experimentation and drugs. By overriding the governor’s misguided veto, the Kansas Legislature has taken a critical step to protect children from radical activists that peddle a gender ideology that sends kids down a one-way path of lifetime medicalization....”