DeSantis touts Florida lawsuit seeking to block Biden's Title IX changes

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Florida revenge a suit seeking to artifact President Biden's caller changes to Title IX connected Tuesday, pinch Gov. Ron DeSantis accusing nan president of "abusing his law authority."

DeSantis announced nan suit connected societal media, saying Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina were besides connected committee pinch nan suit. The Biden administration's changes to Title IX forestall schools from banning biologic males from competing successful women's sports, among different things.

"Florida is suing nan Biden Administration complete its unlawful Title IX changes. Biden is abusing his law authority to push an ideological schedule that harms women and girls and conflicts pinch nan truth," DeSantis wrote. "We will not comply, and we will conflict backmost against Biden’s harmful agenda."

The Independent Women’s Law Center, Independent Women’s Network, Parents Defending Education and Speech First, Inc. are besides listed arsenic plaintiffs successful nan title on pinch nan states.

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, left, and President Biden. (Getty Images)

The Biden administration’s revision of Title IX redefines "sex" arsenic "gender identity" and "sexual orientation," while besides requiring schools to guarantee students usage "preferred pronouns" for their classmates. If not, nan schoolhouse is astatine consequence of losing national funding.

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Under nan rule, a schoolhouse must besides not abstracted aliases dainty group otherwise based connected sex, which will let locker rooms and bathrooms to beryllium based connected gender identity. 

Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr announced nan suit connected Monday, arguing nan alteration is vulnerable for women and would destruct women's sports.

Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis

Florida revenge a suit seeking to artifact President Biden's caller changes to Title IX connected Tuesday, pinch Gov. Ron DeSantis accusing nan president of "abusing his law authority." (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

"The Biden management is destroying women’s sports by gutting commonsense provisions that protect female athletes and demanding that biologic males beryllium allowed to compete against females," Carr said successful a nationalist statement. "Today we person taken action to take sides women’s authorities to adjacent competition, and we will support fighting until we extremity this absurdity erstwhile and for all."

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The suit argues that Biden has overstepped his authority by attempting to flaunt Congress.

"While different administrations tin person different argumentation views, they cannot override nan matter that Congress enacted successful 1972 aliases overrule nan binding precedent of this circuit. The Biden norm does both—to nan detriment of nan States, their schools, and their students. For a big of reasons, this caller norm violates nan Administrative Procedure Act and should beryllium group aside," nan suit reads.

Chris Carr astatine podium

Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr announced nan suit connected Monday, arguing nan alteration is vulnerable for women and would destruct women's sports. (Megan Varner/Getty Images)

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Carr has antecedently pushed backmost against Biden’s Title IX revision, which was first introduced successful July 2022. He called upon nan NCAA to protect women’s sports by repealing nan norm allowing biologic males to participate successful women’s sports. Carr has besides taken akin ineligible action successful support of Arizona and West Virginia’s "Save Women’s Sports Act."

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Fox News' Scott Thompson contributed to this report.

Anders Hagstrom is simply a newsman pinch Fox News Digital covering nationalist authorities and awesome breaking news events. Send tips to [email protected], aliases connected Twitter: @Hagstrom_Anders.

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