Six more US states have blocked regulations that could force schools to let boys into girls’ changing rooms, with one senior official stating the regulations were a ‘slap in the face’ for American women.
The regulations, known as Title IX, forbid institutions from discriminating on the basis of sex. In July, they were expanded to expressly cover ‘sexual orientation’ and ‘gender identity’.
Andrew Bailey, the Republican attorney general for Missouri, said, ‘[President] Biden’s plan to allow biological males into female spaces was not only blatantly illegal, but also a slap in the face to every woman in America.’
A preliminary injunction issued by US District Judge Rodney Sippel for Arkansas, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota brings the total number of states blocking the rules to 26 – more than half of the country.
In a statement, Bailey called the injunction a ‘huge win for women and girls across the country’.
