Federal Judge Just Smacked Down Biden's Transgender Overreach—Again

Will she get home in time to watch Judge Judy?

Oh, look, another day, another federal judge reminding the woke crowd that biology isn't a suggestion. On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola Jr. tossed out a Biden-era rule that tried to shoehorn gender identity into Title IX protections and strong-arm doctors into performing transgender procedures like it was just another flu shot.

Guirola backed Tennessee and a posse of 14 other red states that dragged the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to court over this nonsense. The judge basically said HHS went full rogue, twisting "sex discrimination" into something it was never meant to be.

"Congress only contemplated biological sex when it enacted Title IX in 1972," Guirola wrote, dropping truth bombs like it's 1972 all over again. "Therefore, the Court finds that HHS exceeded its authority by implementing regulations redefining sex discrimination and prohibiting gender-identity discrimination."

This gem of a rule dropped on May 6, 2024, back when Biden's crew was still pretending they could rewrite reality with a pen stroke. Fast-forward to the Trump era, and the states weren't taking any chances. They figured why wait for the next round of bureaucratic bullying? 

Trump's HHS lawyers tried to calm everyone down, swearing up and down that with the boss cracking down on transgender ideology, no one's getting sued over this. But Guirola wasn't buying the "trust us, bro" routine. He called the threat of enforcement "real" and said sorting this out now would finally give everyone the clarity they've been begging for.

Under this rule, states would've been stuck footing the bill for transgender surgeries through Medicaid and Medicare, while hospitals lost the right to keep bathrooms and locker rooms where they belong—segregated by actual biology. It would've nuked state health exchanges that dared to say no to the procedure parade.

Guirola laid it out plain: "When it enacted Title IX, Congress's concern was prohibiting sex discrimination in education. It was particularly concerned with inequality that female students experienced. It did not at that time contemplate gender identity, transgender status, or 'gender-affirming care,'" he wrote. In other words, Congress wasn't dreaming up a future where "sex" means whatever TikTok says it does.

Tennessee AG Jonathan Skrmetti was popping champagne over the win, and who could blame him?

"When Biden-era bureaucrats tried to illegally rewrite our laws to force radical gender ideology into every corner of American health care, Tennessee stood strong and stopped them," Skrmetti said. "This decision restores not just common sense but also constitutional limits on federal overreach, and I am proud of the team of excellent attorneys who fought this through to the finish."

Skrmetti hammered home how this would've forced hospitals into sex-segregated space chaos and made states subsidize the whole "gender-affirming" circus via Medicaid. 

The suit had the full Republican AG squad from Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Virginia, and West Virginia all piling on, because when it comes to fighting federal fairy tales, strength in numbers.Meanwhile, President Trump, never one to let Biden's legacy linger—is on a tear with executive orders to undo the transgender takeover. He's already kicked off a full audit of every Biden move on this front, making sure the madness gets the boot it deserves. 

Score one for sanity, zero for the ideologues.

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Huge win for women and girls, big defeat for Biden and handler[s]

The Biden administration's effort to modify Title IX to permit men to dominate in women's sports, walk around with their genitals exposed in their locker rooms, and bathrooms was overruled by a federal court across the nation.

Twenty-six states filed a lawsuit to prevent these new rules from taking effect, and in August, the Supreme Court temporarily halted the implementation of these rules. However, a federal court has now issued a nationwide injunction, preventing the regulations from being enforced even in states that did not join the lawsuit.

Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita, who was at the forefront of the legal challenge against the Title IX changes, described the ruling as a "huge win."

"Biden's radical Title IX rewrite has been defeated in court again," Rokita stated on X. "For now, Hoosier girls and girls nationwide are protected from biological males being able to infringe on their private spaces. Proud to be a part of the coalition of like-minded AGs fighting for this commonsense outcome."

Riley Gaines, a student-athlete who competed against big Lia Thomas, a dude, in college swimming, also lauded the ruling and tweeted:

“Huge win for girls and women everywhere!!! This morning, a federal court ruled in favor of reality. Biden’s Title IX rewrite has been vacated nationwide. Common sense is slowly returning,” Thank you, [Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti]!”

Skrmetti published his own post praising the decision, saying, “The court’s order is [a] resounding victory for the protection of girls’ privacy in locker rooms and showers, and for the freedom to speak biologically-accurate pronouns.”

Another massive win for TN and the country!

Alliance Defending Freedom, representing some female athletes and Christian educators opposing Biden's Title IX rules, described the court's decision as "a colossal win for women and girls across the country."

"The Biden administration's radical attempt to redefine sex not only tossed fairness, safety, and privacy for female students out the window, it also threatened free speech and parental rights," said Kristen Waggoner, CEO, President, and General Counsel of ADF. "With this ruling, the federal court in Kentucky rejected the entire Biden rule and the administration's illegal actions."

The Biden administration sought to broaden the term "sex" under Title IX, a law that bans discrimination based on sex in schools receiving federal funds. Their interpretation included "gender identity," potentially allowing biological males to compete in women's sports, which has already led to numerous women losing out on scholarships and medal opportunities.

President-elect Donald Trump has stated he would prevent men from participating in women's sports. In August, he told radio hosts Clay Travis and Buck Sexton that he would address this issue on his first day in office.

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