A federal judge in Alabama on Tuesday refused to block the Biden administration from enforcing new anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ students in four Republican-led states, breaking with six o
ther judges who have said the rules are invalid. U.S. District Judge Annemarie Axon in Birmingham in a 122-page ruling, rejected various arguments that the four states led by Alabama made in challenging U.S. Department of Education regulations that say a federal law barring sex discrimination in education extends to gender identity.
The Education Department when it adopted the rule in April said it clarified that the prohibition against sex-based discrimination in Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 also includes discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. The Education Department said that a 2020 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Bostock v.
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