Court ruling in Kansas blocks Title IX changes at some SC schools

SC Attorney General’s Office

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO)– Attorney General Alan Wilson announces that a court ruling in Kansas will temporarily block the Biden administration’s new Title IX Rule from being implemented at some South Carolina schools, colleges, and universities.

The attorney general’s office says although South Carolina is not a party to the suit the ruling does affect some South Carolina schools.

A list of schools that may be affected by the order can be found here.

South Carolina is waiting on a ruling in its own case against proposed changes to Title IX.

Attorney General Wilson filed a separate lawsuit in April on the same rule, arguing that the Biden administration does not have the authority to override the text of Title IX that Congress passed in 1972.

The new rule, which is slated to take effect August 1, 2024, requires any school receiving federal funding to accommodate students’ and teachers’ “gender identity”, says the AG’s office.

This means biological boys and men that identify as female will be allowed to use girls’ bathrooms and locker rooms.

Also, students and teachers will also be required to use others’ “preferred pronouns.”

The Biden administration has asked a court to pause portions of that ruling and let the Title IX Rule go into effect while the case goes up on appeal, but no further decision has been made yet on that request.