Il Texas will not implement amendments made by the President’s administration Joe Biden to Title IX, aimed at introducing new protections for transsexual students, recognizing for example their right to compete in sports categories reserved for members of the opposite biological sex. This was declared by the governor of the state, Greg Abbott, following a line already announced by the governor of Florida Ron DeSantis. In a letter sent to the president Biden, Abbott says new measures aimed at strengthening protections for transgender students are “illegal” and the result of a “misguided attempt to impose left-wing beliefs via Title IX.” “He rewrote Title IX to force schools to treat boys as if they were girls, and to accept any self-reported gender identity of students,” states the governor’s letter to the president of the United States. According to Abbott, Biden’s regulatory intervention also exceeds the legal limits on the authority of the occupant of the White House. Public education officials in Florida, Louisiana, Wyoming, South Carolina and Oklahoma have also spoken out against the Title IX overhaul in recent days.
The governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, announced last week that it will not implement the amendments decreed by the presidential administration. “Florida rejects the attempt to rewrite Title IX,” said the Republican governor via a video message published on X (Twitter). We will not adapt, and we will fight back.” The Biden administration unveiled on April 26 the final version of a series of changes to Title IX, which will take effect in August. According to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, the new regulations “expand the spirit of Title IX by making clear that all of our nation’s students can access schools that are safe, open, and respectful of their rights.”
Florida Education Commissioner Manny Diaz Jr. has an opposing opinion: “Instead of implementing clear congressional directives aimed at preventing discrimination on the basis of biological sex, the Biden administration tears the statutes to pieces, making them unrecognizable and attempts to push the country to believe that biological sex no longer has any meaning,” the official said. DeSantis, which in the past has already harshly criticized LGBTQ activism, accusing it of causing damage to social cohesion and the US education system, last year launched measures aimed at excluding LGBTQ issues from school curricula in Florida.
