In a post on X, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced the lawsuit was filed because President Biden is “abusing his constitutional authority to push an ideological agenda” that harms women and girls.
“We will not comply,” DeSantis wrote, “and we will fight back against Biden’s harmful agenda.”
AFN has reported the transgender-defending U.S. Department of Education has set an August 1 date for public school districts to comply with a radical rewriting of Title IX federal law --- replacing "sex" with "gender identity" --- if they want to continue receiving federal education dollars.
Rather than comply, U.S. states including Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Idaho, and Tennessee have filed suit to stop the new Title IX regulations which demand obedience to transgender ideology.
In the X posting by DeSantis, a copy of lawsuit lists Florida’s co-plaintiffs that include neighboring states Georgia and Alabama, the state of South Carolina, as well as the Independent Women’s Law Center, Independent Women’s Network, Parents Defending Education, and Speech First, Inc.
Aaron DiPietro, of the Florida Family Policy Council, predicts the legal challenges are supported by the text of Title IX, which defined “sex” very clearly in federal law.
“Injecting the ideas of sexual orientation and gender identity,” he says, “is just absolutely in contradiction to not only the spirit but also the letter of Title IX.”
If the Biden administration wins in court, DiPietro warns, innocent children and free speech will lose.
“We should not be playing these pronoun games with our children's futures,” he says. “And we should absolutely not be forcing coerced speech, at the point of government manipulation, with dollars being strung in front of school districts."
