Attorney General Alan Wilson Announces Court Temporarily Blocks Title IX Change from Taking Effect in Four States

South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson announces that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit has granted South Carolina’s request for an administrative injunction, which means the Title IX change that was supposed to go into effect tomorrow is temporarily blocked in South Carolina, Alabama, Florida, and Georgia.

“This is a big win in our fight to protect children,” said Attorney General Wilson. “We’ve argued that the Biden administration does not have the authority to make this change, and with this temporary injunction, we now have time to make our case in court without our children being put in danger.”

The court granted an administrative injunction, which temporarily blocks the Biden administration from enforcing the Title IX Rule “pending further order of this Court.” The states will now file a motion for injunction pending appeal, which must be fully briefed by August 7th.

You can read the Court’s order here.

The new rule, which was slated to take effect August 1st nationwide, requires any school receiving federal funding to accommodate students’ and teachers’ “gender identity.” This means biological boys and men that identify as female will be allowed to use girls’ bathrooms and locker rooms. Students and teachers will also be required to use others’ “preferred pronouns.”

The ruling this afternoon came from the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. A ruling by a federal court in Kansas in a separate but similar lawsuit against Title IX had already blocked the rule from taking effect in some South Carolina schools, colleges, and universities. South Carolina is not a party in that lawsuit.