Florida, Oklahoma instruct schools to ignore Biden's Title IX changes, pending legal challenges

The authorities governments successful Oklahoma and Florida are telling schools not to conform to President Biden's changes to Title IX policies.

Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters announced Thursday greeting that helium has instructed schools wrong his authorities not to comply with the Biden administration's changes to Title IX, which see sex individuality protections.

"In treatment with respective different authorities acquisition leaders and ineligible counsel, determination are immoderate superior concerns with the legality of these regularisation changes, particularly arsenic it relates to its redefinition of 'sex' to see sex identity," Walters wrote successful a missive to authorities superintendents. 

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President Biden speaks during a run halt astatine Hillsborough Community College’s Dale Mabry field successful Tampa, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Walters said successful his announcement that helium expects ineligible challenges to the Title IX alterations successful the coming days and urged schools to refrain from implementing changes until the substance is settled.

"Please bash not marque immoderate territory argumentation changes based connected the caller Title IX regulations," Walters instructed authorities educators. "These national regularisation changes are amerciable and making argumentation changes earlier the courts travel to a definitive ruling connected the legality of these rules could enactment your territory retired of compliance with different existent and ineligible authorities and national statute."

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Florida Education Commissioner Manny Diaz Jr. announced a akin volition to combat the Title IX changes connected Wednesday, calling the caller guidelines absurd.

"The Biden Administration maims the statute beyond designation successful an effort to gaslight the state into believing that biologic enactment nary longer has immoderate meaning," Diaz said previously.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks astatine a property league successful Sanford, Florida, April 8, 2024. (Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Fox News Digital reached retired to the offices of Diaz and Walters but did not person a response.

Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., besides signaled a coming ineligible battle, penning connected societal media, "This regularisation is simply a privation database for the acold left, including unlawfully expanding the scope of the regularisation disconnected campus, lowering owed process protections for students accused of misconduct, entrenching kangaroo courts, and delinking ‘sex discrimination’ from biologic sex."

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Education Secretary Miguel Cardona says the caller Title IX regulations marque "crystal wide that everyone tin entree schools that are safe, welcoming and that respect their rights." (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

The Biden administration unveiled the caller rules past week to code concerns expressed by LGBTQ+ groups regarding sex individuality protections.

New regulations included expanding the explanation of enactment favoritism to see some intersexual predisposition and sex identity, which the president's medication touts arsenic extortion for LGBT students.

"No 1 should look bullying oregon favoritism conscionable due to the fact that of who they are, who they love," Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said. "Sadly, this happens each excessively often."

The unveiled regularisation changes besides rolled backmost regulations enactment successful spot by erstwhile Trump Education Secretary Betsy DeVos that ensured owed process for the accused. 

Fox News' Julia Johnson and Michael Dorgan contributed to this report.