Judge Rules Biden’s HHS “Exceeded Its Authority” on Title IX

JACKSON, MS – Last week, a federal judge in Mississippi permanently struck down a rule from the Biden administration that redefined sex discrimination to include “gender identity,” and which would have extended federal anti-discrimination protections in health care to people with gender confusion. Under Title IX, the final rule would have empowered those with gender confusion to decry sex discrimination for being denied insurance coverage for harmful puberty blockers, hormones, and mutilating surgeries, and would have forced states to use taxpayer dollars to pay for them. The judge ruled that Biden’s U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which was responsible for administering the rule, “exceeded its authority” because Title IX’s definition of sex was never intended to include gender ideology.