'Sweeping victory': Kobach claims victory against Biden's Title IX transgender regulation

TOPEKA (KSNT) - Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach said he won a preliminary injunction by pushing pause on the implementation of President Biden's Title IX transgender regulations Tuesday.

The Title IX regulations from the Biden administration would have required public schools across the United States to allow biological males who identify as females to use the same locker room facilities as biological girls, according to a news release from the attorney general's office. Kobach's office said it would also require public schools and universities to let biological males who identify as females to compete in girls' sports.

Kansas federal judge John Broomes ruled in favor of Kansas as well as attorneys general from Alaska, Utah and Wyoming. Broomes also ruled in favor of three private organizations: Moms for Liberty, Young America’s Foundation and Female Athletes United.

"Given... the evidence before the court, it is not hard to imagine that, under the Final Rule, an industrious older teenage boy may simply claim to identify as a female to gain access to the girls' showers, dressing rooms, or locker rooms so that he can observe his female peers disrobe and shower," Broomes wrote in the order.

On July 20, 2024, Kobach personally argued this case, according to the news release.

We have had many wins in court, but to me, this is the biggest one yet, it protects girls and women across the country from having their privacy rights and safety violated in bathrooms and locker rooms and from having their freedom of speech violated if they say there are only two sexes.

Statement from Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach

According to Kobach, this injunction will have a sweeping effect, prohibiting Biden's implementation of the transgender regulations in four plaintiff states. This coverage extends to all 50 states through plaintiff organizations.

"The Department of Education's reinterpretation of Title IX to place gender identity on equal footing with (or in some instances arguably stronger footing than) biological sex would subvert Congress' goals of protecting biological women in education," Broomes wrote in the order. "The Final Rule would, among other things, require schools to subordinate the fears, concerns, and privacy interests of biological women to the desires of transgender biological men to shower, dress, and share restroom facilities with their female peers."

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