Paxton blocks Biden's Title IX rule protecting LGBTQ+ students in Texas

AUSTIN (KXAN) -- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton blocked the Biden Administration's Title IX rule protecting LGBTQ+ students from sex-based discrimination and harassment, Paxton's office announced in a Tuesday release.

The rule would have protected all students and employees from all sex discrimination, including restoring and strengthening full protection from sexual violence and other sex-based harassment.

Paxton said in the release he won a "major" victory against the Biden Administration's Department of Education's attempt to rewrite Title IX to force Texas schools to adopt radical "transgender" policies in violation of state and federal law.

“Joe Biden’s unlawful effort to weaponize Title IX for his extremist agenda has been stopped in its tracks,” Paxton said in the release. “Threatening to withhold education funding by forcing states to accept ‘transgender’ policies that put women in danger was plainly illegal. Texas has prevailed on behalf of the entire Nation.”

The Biden Administration's changes to Title IX are set to go into effect nationwide on Aug. 1, except in states where it has been blocked.