A federal judge has denied Carroll Independent School District’s request for a nationwide stay of the Biden-Harris administration’s controversial Title IX changes that would force schools to accept radical gender ideology or lose federal funding.
However, the judge maintained a temporary injunction blocking enforcement of the changes against Carroll ISD and ordered expedited litigation in this case, concluding that the district is “substantially certain” to succeed on the merits.
U.S. District Court Judge Reed O’Connor issued the ruling a day before the new Title IX regulations were set to take effect on August 1.
Title IX is a federal civil rights law enacted in 1972 to protect females from sex-based discrimination in education.
The 1,500-page Biden-Harris rewrite adds “gender identity” as a protected class, undermining Title IX’s protections for girls in K-12 schools by mandating compliance with harmful gender ideology.
Schools that refuse to allow boys into girls’ private spaces or let males participate in female sports are threatened with losing federal education funds.
In response to Judge O’Connor’s ruling, Carroll ISD Board President Cam Bryan explained that the district requested a nationwide injunction on the Title IX changes to protect their students from harm when traveling to other states for school-related activities.
“Some of those states have state laws similar to the Biden administration’s proposed Title IX changes,” wrote Bryan.
The judge denied our request for a nationwide injunction because, as he wrote, “a stay of the Final Rule results in no effect on state policies prioritizing accommodations for transgender students at the expense of non-transgender students.”
“As unfortunate as this reality is, a stay would not dissolve those state policies,” the ruling noted.
“However, should circumstances change prior to a final ruling on the merits, Carroll ISD may renew its request for a stay and/or seek a broadened preliminary injunction,” the judge added.
Judge O’Connor directed the parties to submit a joint schedule for an expedited resolution by August 7.
All Texas students are currently protected from the Title IX changes under a separate legal ruling obtained by Attorney General Ken Paxton.
“Today, the Biden-Harris Administration’s dangerous and illegal anti-woman policy takes effect in other States—but not in Texas,” Paxton posted Thursday on X.
Biden wanted to force Texas schools to allow men into girls’ locker rooms and on women’s sports teams. But I secured an injunction preventing ANY aspect of Biden’s unlawful Title IX rewrite from being enforced in Texas’s schools, colleges, and universities while the case is heard in court. I am honored to defend women’s rights against the Left’s war on Title IX.
Earlier this week, the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily blocked the regulations from affecting students in Florida, Georgia, Alabama, and South Carolina.
In yet another court case halting the Title IX rewrite, a federal judge temporarily blocked the U.S. Department of Education from enforcing the gender identity rule against Kansas, Alaska, Utah, and Wyoming, as well as every school attended by members of Young America’s Foundation or children of Moms for Liberty members.
“Gender ideology does not belong in public schools and we are glad the courts made the correct call to support parental rights,” Moms for Liberty co-founders Tiffany Justice and Tina Descovich commented following the win.
Litigation against the radical Biden-Harris Title IX rewrite is ongoing in multiple courts.
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