- cross-posted to:
- politics@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- politics@lemmy.world
Gov. Greg Abbott ordered schools in the state to ignore new rules from the Biden administration.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton ® announced that he has sued the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) over new Title IX guidelines that make discrimination against LGBTQ+ students in education illegal.
“Texas will not allow Joe Biden to rewrite Title IX at whim, destroying legal protections for women in furtherance of his radical obsession with gender ideology,” Paxton said in a statement. “This attempt to subvert federal law is plainly illegal, undemocratic, and divorced from reality. Texas will always take the lead to oppose Biden’s extremist, destructive policies that put women at risk.”
Earlier this month, the DOE unveiled new Title IX rules to address the needs of LGBTQ+ students. The rules interpret Title IX, which bans discrimination on the basis of sex in education, as a legal protection against anti-LGBTQ+ school policies. The idea is that it’s impossible to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity without taking sex into account, a legal argument that the Supreme Court has already used in its 2020 Bostock v. Clayton Co. ruling with respect to job discrimination.
They represent the values of the people who vote for them. Keep that in mind.
And actually, if you read the bolded part, it’s very interesting what they are suing on and I think it could set a good precedent if they get thrown out, but I’m worried that they won’t
Given how low the voting turnout has been in the last decade or 2, that is far from a majority of the population.
Aren’t they essentially saying they are okay with this type of bullshit? If they were not, they would vote him out.
What they’re saying to me is they DGAF about how the city/state/country is run.