Gov. Greg Abbott orders Texas to ignore Biden administration’s new federal protections of LGBTQ+ students

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Gov. Greg Abbott orders Texas to ignore Biden administration’s new federal protections of LGBTQ+ students
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The new Title IX rules expanded the definition of sex-based harassment. Texas is also suing the Biden administration to block the changes.

ordered the Texas Education Agency on Monday to ignore a Biden administration rule that expanded federal sex discrimination protections to include LGBTQ+ students.

"Congress wrote Title IX to protect women. Biden, with no authority to do so, rewrote Title IX to protect men who identify as women," Abbott In its final interpretation of Title IX, the Biden administration sought to extend a 2020 U.S. Supreme Court case decision related to workplace discrimination to students. The high court ruled inthat Title VII, a civil rights law that bars employment discrimination on the basis of sex, applied to gay and transgender workers.

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