Alabama v. Cardona

The recently announced Title IX regulation upends the 1972 law, which forbids discrimination against women and girls, including by providing males access to girls’ locker rooms and bathrooms and requiring speech codes that indoctrinate young students with gender ideology.

Case Details

Case Status

Pending Case

Location

Alabama

Date Filed

April 29, 2024

On April 29, 2024, female college athletes, college students, parents, and the states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina sued the Biden administration over its new Title IX rule. Parents Defending Education and Speech First are both plaintiffs in the case. Title IX is a 1972 law that bans sex discrimination in schools that receive federal money.

The lawsuit argues the new rule turns that law upside down. It gives males access to girls’ locker rooms and bathrooms, requires speech codes that push gender ideology on young students, and limits the ability of students accused of sexual harassment to defend themselves.

Read the complaint below:



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