(The Center Square) – A Mississippi judge said the Biden administration “exceeded its authority” in redefining sex discrimination and prohibiting gender discrimination.
A 15-state coalition led by Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti and Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch challenged the rule.
The policy adopted by the Biden administration would have “forced doctors to perform controversial gender-transition procedures and Tennessee taxpayers to fund them,” according to Skrmetti’s office. The Department of Health and Human Services used Title IX, a policy enacted by Congress to prevent sex discrimination in education, as its reasoning behind the decision.
“Neither Defendants nor this Court have authority to reinterpret or expand the meaning of ‘sex’ under Title IX,” wrote U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola Jr. in the decision.
If implemented, the rule would have also barred health care facilities from separate spaces for each sex, according to Skrmetti’s office.
“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. “Our 15-state coalition worked together to protect the right of health care providers across America to make decisions based on evidence, reason, and conscience. 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.”
