Last week, President Biden updated Title IX, which protects students from discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation.
Abbott's directive follows a similar action he took last week when he ordered the Texas Education Agency to ignore the recent changes to the decades-old law.AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is encouraging universities and colleges across the state to ignore recent revisions of Title IX signed by President Joe Biden.to apply to students who are part of the LGBTQ+ community.
In a letter sent to universities on Wednesday, Abbott encouraged noncompliance with the new revisions, citing concerns about the impact the new rule may have on women's collegiate sports."As I have already made clear, Texas will not comply with President Joe Biden's rewrite of Title IX that contradicts the original purpose and spirit of the law to support the advancement of women.
Gov. Greg Abbott orders Texas to ignore Biden administration’s new federal protections of LGBTQ+ students As alluded to in the letter, Wednesday's letter follows Abbott instructing the Texas Education Agency to disregard the rewrite last week. Abbott's order to TEA came the same day Attorney General Ken Paxton announced that he was suing the Biden administration to block the changes to Title IX. Paxton's lawsuit joined Texas with a growing number of Republican-led states that have criticized the new rules, setting the stage for aKVUE would like to send you push notifications about the latest news and weather.
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