U.S. District Judge Annemarie Axon upheld the Biden administration's new guidelines against anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination in schools, contradicting judges from five other states.
The rules under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 consider harassing LGBTQ+ students, like deadnaming or misgendering, as forms of sex-based discrimination, applying federal laws banning sex discrimination to gender identity.
Axon referenced the 2020 Supreme Court ruling in Bostock v. Clayton County, signaling that the DOE's rulemaking was reasonable and not deemed unreasonable as claimed by critics.
Despite opposition from 26 Republican-led states and injunctions in 21 states by six judges, federal appeals courts have denied stays on some of these injunctions, prompting the Biden administration to seek intervention from the U.S. Supreme Court.
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