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Before taking office, Joe Biden declared he would do away with the Trump-era’s conservative Title IX rules on sex discrimination, sexual orientation, and gender identity. On April 19, 2024, President Biden went beyond his pre-election vow and issued his administration’s Title IX rulings, in what FOX contributor Cal Thomas calls the latest of plans to destroy anything left of our country’s moral foundations. Absent any intervention, the new Title IX rules will become law on Sept. 1, 2024, just in time for implementation in our schools for the fall semester.

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Title IX rules fill a gap created by the Civil Rights Act passed in 1964 that prohibited discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin in employment and public accommodations. Excluded in this original act was sex discrimination against persons employed in educational institutions. Title IX, written to address that gap, became law on June 23, 1972. Each administration’s Office of Civil Rights (located within the Department of Education), issues its own Title IX rules to address sex discrimination issues the DOE finds particularly egregious.

Some of the rulings embedded within the 1,530 pages of these new Title IX rulings are:

• There are extended protections for LGBTQ+ students, based on gender identity and not biological sex.
• Biden’s rules revoke the Trump-era rules that gave rights to those accused of sexual crimes to be heard when charged. New rules do not require the accuser to attend live hearings or go through cross-examinations.
• Title IX now extends the definition of sex-based harassment to include pregnant persons on the campus of any school that receives federal funds. The rule clarifies the steps a school must take to protect students, employees, and applicants from discrimination based on pregnancy or related conditions. If abortions were allowed under this rule, this action would override any state’s ban on abortion.
• Students may use the bathroom of their gender identity without fear of discipline.
• Any institution that receives federal funds once designated for women must allow those funds to also be used for anyone who identifies as a woman, even if he is a biological male.
• At this time, Title IX has no definitive ruling on transgender students being allowed to play on a team consistent with gender identity. Biden vowed to issue a ruling by Sept. 1, 2024, shortly before the beginning of the 2024 fall semester. If the administration remains consistent with its past rulings, trans students will be allowed to play on teams consistent with their gender identity.

Critics of the newly released Title IX rules consider this leftist rewrite to be illegal, and they intend to see that Biden’s attack on America’s frail moral fiber fails. Informed intercessors are crucial to defeating this assault on our nation, aimed at undermining the morals of every person enrolled in any school or any other educational institution that receives federal funds.

Pray for law firms and organizations to file law suits or join those listed below that have already initiated legal action. Such pending action stalls Title IX rules from taking effect.

Law firms that have already filed:
Independent Women’s Forum
Independent Women’s Law Center
Alliance Defending Freedom
Parents Defending Education
First America Legal
Defense of Freedom Institute

Pray for more attorneys general, governors, and state education superintendents to join those listed below who object openly to the administration’s Title IX rules.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis issued a statement that Florida will not comply with recently unveiled changes to the Biden administration’s TITLE IX rulings.

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Sanders ordered her state to follow its own laws instead of the Biden administration’s new interpretation of Title IX, calling it a “plainly ridiculous change.”

Oklahoma State Superintendent of Public Education Ryan Walters, stated that Oklahoma will not comply with Biden’s new Title IX changes.

Louisiana’s superintendent of education told Louisiana educators to ignore the Biden administration’s new Title IX rules, stating that the new rules would conflict with laws Louisiana already has in place to protect students.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a challenge. Montana, Mississippi, and Idaho have also filed lawsuits.

God has not left us without recourse: Intercessors have four months before this law takes effect — which gives us time to pray fervently to our God for an end to this evil agenda.

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Nancy Huff is an educator with a mission to equip believers to pray strategically for the cultural mountain of education. She is the author of Taking the Mountain of Education: A Strategic Prayer Guide to Transform American Schools; Safety Zone: Scriptural Prayers to Revolutionize Your School; and Decrees for Your School. She leads groups for prayer at key educational locations across the U.S. Find out more by visiting TakingTheMountainOfEducation.com. Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America – Joe Biden, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.