Back in April, the Biden administration released a new definition of federal Title IX regulations that would effectively doom women's sports and shove transgenderism down the throats of everyone in the country. Multiple states immediately filed lawsuits seeking to beat back these changes. Now, a U.S. District judge in Louisiana has ruled that the changes constitute an abuse of power and a threat to democracy, blocking the rule in his state and three others that joined in the lawsuit. The Education Department is reviewing the ruling and has vowed to fight to overturn it. The states in question have argued that the new rules would cost their school districts millions of dollars in modifications to bathrooms and sports facilities to remain in compliance with the modifications to Title IX while robbing girls and young women of their rights to privacy and the ability to compete in sports events on a level playing field. (Associated Press)

The Biden administration’s new Title IX rule expanding protections for LGBTQ+ students has been temporarily blocked in four states after a federal judge in Louisiana found that it overstepped the Education Department’s authority.

In a preliminary injunction granted Thursday, U.S. District Judge Terry A. Doughty called the new rule an “abuse of power” and a “threat to democracy.” His order blocks the rule in Louisiana, which filed a challenge to the rule in April, and in Mississippi, Montana and Idaho, which joined the suit.

The Education Department defended the rule and said it’s reviewing the judge’s order.

“The Department stands by the final Title IX regulations released in April 2024, and we will continue to fight for every student,” the agency said in a statement.

This is one more thing that Donald Trump can add to his nearly endless "to-do" list if he returns to office next year. We desperately need to replace Miguel Cardona as the Secretary of Education with someone far less woke who actually cares about the rights of women and girls. These insidious changes to Title IX represent a massive shift in societal norms and they were instituted without any congressional action reflecting the voices of the people. This is yet another reminder that anything that can be done with the stroke of a pen can be undone in the same fashion.

The social contagion of transgenderism exploded onto the scene seemingly out of nowhere, upending humanity's fundamental understanding of biology and gender that had endured throughout all of recorded history. Something that had long been understood by the medical community as an unfortunate but treatable mental disorder was suddenly embraced as "the new normal." Too many of us who believe in personal liberty initially shrugged off the trend, saying that people are free to dress how they like and call themselves whatever they choose, provided they don't try to force those changes upon everyone else.

But that was never good enough for the radical left. They insisted on trying to force these changes on everyone else, dictating how you speak and when your own rights and privacy can be dismissed. Now this contagion has infected the highest levels of the government and the Department of Education was identified as the perfect place to install such a mandate without any legislative proceedings. 

An entire generation of girls and young women are being robbed of their rights and labeled as "transphobes" or even criminals if they object. Actual females in the nation's high schools and college sororities are being made to feel unsafe when accessing basic resources such as bathrooms, locker rooms, showers, or even dormitory sleeping quarters. But the increasingly sociopathic left tries to claim that you are the one with a problem if you don't meekly accept all of this. It starts in the public school systems and ripples out from there like a cancer spreading through the population. It needs to stop, and that is going to require some hard work and adult leadership in Washington along with some common-sense decisions from the Supreme Court, which has been disappointingly quiet on these questions thus far.