A federal judge issued a temporary ruling Thursday in favor of the Carroll school district’s lawsuit, blocking expanded Title IX protections for LGBTQ students from taking effect in August.
In his ruling, Judge Reed O’Connor of the Northern District of Texas said the injunction covers the Carroll district for now, but requested briefings by July 18 on possibly broadening the ruling to include other school districts.
O’Connor said that implementing the Biden Administration’s changes — which include training staff and issuing new protection guidelines — would cause irreparable harm to Carroll schools and force the district to spend millions to implement the changes.
O’Connor, a known conservative, said privileging gender identity over biological sex is in no way authorized by the statutory text.
And the “consequences based on this statutory distortion appear limitless. For these reasons, and those stated by other federal courts, Carroll ISD is likely to succeed on the merits of their challenge to the Final Rule,” O’connor wrote.
Attorneys from the Alliance Defending Freedom, the law firm representing the school district did not respond to an email Thursday night seeking comment.
Earlier this year, the Carroll school board voted to adopt a resolution criticizing the Biden Administration’s Title IX expanded protections, calling them harmful to girls and women.
The school district then sued the Biden Administration in the Northern District of Texas in Fort Worth.
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