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The Biden administration cannot enforce new protections for LGBTQ+ students in Ohio, Virginia and four other states, a federal judge ruled Monday, becoming the latest court to rebuff efforts to expand the scope of a decades-old law that prohibits sex-based discrimination..

The Biden administration cannot enforce new protections for LGBTQ+ students in Ohio, Virginia and four other states, a federal judge ruled Monday, becoming the latest court to rebuff efforts to expand the scope of a decades-old law that prohibits sex-based discrimination.

US District Judge Danny Reeves said in a 93-page ruling that the new protections – which are set to take effect August 1 – cannot be enforced in Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Virginia and West Virginia while a lawsuit brought by those states’ attorneys general plays out.

The new rules require schools to protect students from all sex discrimination, including sexual violence and sex-based harassment, expanding that definition to include discrimination based on pregnancy or pregnancy-related conditions like childbirth, termination of pregnancy or recovery from pregnancy. Compliance with the new rules is required to receive federal education aid.

  • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
    90·
    5 months ago

    “The Department’s interpretation conflicts with the plain language of Title IX and therefore exceeds its authority to promulgate regulations under that statute,” the judge wrote, adding that he also believed the changes would, in effect, require some educators “to use students’ preferred pronouns regardless of whether doing so conflicts with the educator’s religious or moral beliefs.”

    Calling a student what they want to be called. Oh, the humanity!

    Jesus Fucking Allah Buddah Mohammad Baphomet Christ on rubber crutches. How godamned hard is it to leave your hate-filled religion at the door and just be a decent human being for 8 hours?

    Background: We have one of those fucking stupid “religious freedumb” laws on the books. “It won’t be used to discriminate”, they lied. Bullshit. This is exactly the kind of crap they want to use that law for. Goddamn, I hate this state. Can’t even do the bare minimum of not being a piece of shit.

    • BigMacHole@lemm.ee
      321·
      5 months ago

      Jesus would NEVER EVER stand for calling students what they want to be called!

        • davidagain@lemmy.world
          6·
          5 months ago

          Don’t judge others.

          Love your neighbour, and this means anyone in need, especially ones from ethnicities your nation shuns.

          Look after the poor, the widows and the foreigners.

          Pay your taxes.

          But seriously, number one and number two are love God and love your neighbour, according to Jesus, and he got really really cross about the religious leaders making up all kinds of rules for everyone else to follow, and for making the temple all about the money.

          He also said that you can’t love God and money.

          It’s just not a very Republican kind of line of morality, you can see why they’re rejecting it.

    • Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      19·
      5 months ago

      just be a decent human

      A large group of people find human decency terrible, and don’t think it should extend to anyone but themselves.

      This is why I do not consider myself to be human. Humans, overall, do not display behaviour that meets my moral standards.