Kansas Attorney General Wins Preliminary Injunction Over Title IX Transgender Rules

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) – Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach has obtained a preliminary injunction over the Biden administration’s Title IX transgender regulations.

According to the Kansas Attorney General’s Office, Biden’s Title IX regulations would require public schools to allow biological males who identify as females to shower with biological females in school locker rooms. It would also require public schools and universities to allow biological males who identify as girls to compete in girls’ sports.

“Given the … evidence presented to the court, it is not difficult to imagine that under the Final Rule, an industrious older teen could simply claim to identify as female in order to gain access to girls’ showers, changing rooms, or locker rooms and to observe his female friends undressing and showering,” Judge John Broomes wrote in the order.

The Kansas Attorney General’s Office said Broomes, a federal judge in Kansas, ruled in favor of the state of Kansas and the attorneys general of Alaska, Utah and Wyoming, as well as three private organizations: Moms for Liberty, Young America’s Foundation and Female Athletes United.

Kansas Attorney General Kobach personally represented the case on June 20, officials said.

“We’ve had a lot of victories in court, but this is the biggest victory for me. It protects girls and women across the country from having their privacy and safety rights violated in bathrooms and locker rooms, and from having their free speech violated if they say there are only two genders,” Kobach said.

Kansas attorney general officials said the federal district court’s order would have a far-reaching effect, barring implementation of Biden’s transgender law in four of the plaintiffs’ states. The order also covers schools nationwide through the plaintiffs’ organizations. The private organizations have members in all 50 states.

“The Department of Education’s reinterpretation of Title IX to place gender identity on an equal footing with (or in some cases, arguably, in a stronger position than) biological sex would undermine Congress’s goals to protect biological women in education,” Broomes wrote in the order. “Among other things, the final rule would require schools to subordinate the concerns, privacy interests, and rights of biological women to the desires of transgender biological men to shower, dress, and share restroom facilities with their female peers.”

Officials with the Kansas Attorney General’s Office said it’s likely thousands of schools nationwide will be affected by the ruling. If a single member of Moms for Liberty, Young America’s Foundation or Female Athletes United has students at any school in any state, that school cannot comply with Biden’s Title IX rules. The organizations have until July 15 to notify the court which schools nationwide are affected by the ruling.

Officials noted that the Kansas Attorney General’s Office said all school districts in Kansas have been informed that they must comply with the court order and that they are not permitted to change any school policies to include Biden’s Title IX transgender provisions.