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Tennessee attorney Gen. Jonathan Skrmetti is cautiously optimistic about the future success of his gender-bending Supreme Court case after scoring another legal victory in Kentucky that will reverse the Biden administration’s Title IX rewrite nationwide.
The United States District Court for the Eastern District from kentucky The Northern Division announced Cardona against Tennessee on Thursday.
Skrmetti told Fox News Digital in an interview Tuesday, “Every victory we get is another breach in the wall to ensure that the law means what the people who voted for it meant.”
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A transgender rights advocate takes part in a demonstration in December 2024 outside the Supreme Court in Washington as he hears arguments in a case regarding transgender health rights. The court is hearing arguments from United States v. Skrmetti, a case about Tennessee’s law banning care for gender-affirming minors and whether it violates the Constitution’s equal protection guarantee. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
The sentence came months after the Supreme Court rejected the Biden administration’s emergency request to enforce parts of a new rule that would have included anti-discrimination protections for transgender students under Title IX.
The general rule was issued in April and clarified that Title IX’s ban on “sex” discrimination in schools covered discrimination based on gender identity, sexual orientation and “pregnancy or conditions related”.
The rule went into effect on August 1, 2024, and the law declared, for the first time, that sex discrimination includes conduct related to a person’s gender identity.
“The Title IX rule was the ultimate in overreach, administrative overreach by the Biden administrationand we were very happy to be able to stop it,” Skrmetti said Tuesday.
Protesters demonstrate outside the Supreme Court building as justices hear oral arguments in Washington, DC (Jack Gruber/USA TODAY)
Now, he’s looking toward the court’s long-awaited decision in the United States v. Skrmetti case, which is expected in June.
The Supreme Court is weighing whether the Equal Protection Clause, which guarantees equal treatment under the law for people in similar circumstances, prevents states from prohibiting medical providers from offering puberty blockers and hormone treatments to children who request them transgender surgical procedures.
The Lawsuit Against Tennessee’s Prohibition Law transgender treatment for minors was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of several transgender minors and their parents. The families argue that the law infringes on parents’ rights to make medical decisions for their children and forces them to go out of state to receive transgender procedures.
“The momentum seems to have shifted almost culturally on these issues,” Skrmetti said. “And when you see people trying to rewrite laws through creative litigation, through creative regulation, that takes people away from the laws that bind them, and it’s bad for America.”
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Protesters cheer during the keynote address at the ‘Our Bodies, Our Sports’ rally for the 50th anniversary of Title IX at Freedom Plaza on June 23, 2022 in Washington, DC (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Skrmetti described the recent developments as part of a broader “climate change” in the country, noting that they reflect a “big data point” that indicates a decline in efforts to reshape American law through lawsuits “undemocratic”.
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“We will know what the Supreme Court does when it does,” he said.
Fox News Digital’s Ryan Gaydos contributed to this report.
