ADF attorney Rachel Rouleau tells AFN the law firm filed a Motion to Intervene last week. That legal procedure, which requests changes to a lawsuit, comes after a West Virginia high school athlete and the Christian Educators Association International want to join the lawsuit to fight the U.S. Department of Education.
Since 1972, Title IX has stated that no person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance. The Biden administration wants to redefine the word “sex” to include “gender identity,” a made-up term related to transgender ideology.
The newly announced changes are scheduled to take effect Aug. 1.
Last week, ADF filed a federal lawsuit against the Biden administration on behalf of a Louisiana public school board and 20,000-plus students. In that case, Rapides Parish School Board v. United States Department of Education, ADF attorneys allege the Title IX rule will force schools—including those in Rapides Parish—to impose widespread harms on young people and deny free speech on campus.
"We are planning to file more challenges to the Title IX rule changes to protect women and girls and students and teachers all across the country to ensure that these rule changes don't go into effect," says Rouleau. "Our laws should recognize and respect that men and women are biologically different."
