The Biden administration’s attempt to force males into female-only spaces through Title IX is finally dead as of Tuesday, as trans-crazed groups dropped their appeals to get the rule reinstated.
While the Trump administration effectively ended the Biden Title IX rewrite as one of its first actions after taking back the White House in January 2025, reinstating the 2020 rules from the first term, there were still lingering left-wing attempts to get a judge to block the Trump administration and force the gender social experiment on schoolchildren.
Left-wing groups intervened in cases against the Biden Department of Education in two appeals circuits to continue the push for government-enforced gender ideology. But after radical pro-trans groups dropped their appeals in the 5th and 6th Circuits, Defending Education — a group that sued the Biden Department of Education to stop the rule in the 11th Circuit — was able to file a motion to dismiss its case as moot. The court accepted the motion on Wednesday.
A Better Balance and Victim Rights Law Center, two left-wing groups, were the intervenors in the cases from Tennessee in the 6th Circuit and Texas in the 5th Circuit. Those groups dismissed their 6th Circuit appeal last week and the 5th Circuit appeal on Tuesday, where the Alliance Defending Freedom sued to block the Biden rule.
Defending Education told The Federalist that those groups dropping their appeals allowed Defending Education to file to dismiss its own case, which was a safeguard in the event that the other circuits ruled in favor of the Biden rule.
“At long last the national nightmare that was Biden’s Title IX rewrite has come to a victorious close,” said Sarah Parshall Perry, vice president and senior legal fellow at Defending Education. “We are incredibly pleased that the court accepted our recommendation that the appeal be dismissed as moot, preventing future intervenors and closing out any further attempts to defend a rule that was a violation of civil rights, Constitutional, and administrative law.”
Biden’s Title IX rewrite shredded civil rights protections for women and girls attending school, making sex-specific facilities like restrooms and locker rooms into federal civil rights violations if schools did not allow opposite-sex use. That means boys would be able to sleep in the same rooms on overnight field trips and use girls’ facilities at will, putting females at risk every day. The Biden administration made this rule even after cases of boys claiming to be girls sexually assaulting girls and committing other acts of violence in their restrooms at school.
The Biden administration used the reasoning in Bostock v. Clayton County — the infamous case (written by Justice Neil Gorsuch) that invented “transgender” protections in Title VII employment discrimination cases — to redefine “sex” as it relates to civil rights in educational institutions.
Another part of the Biden Title IX rewrite stripped the due process rights of college students accused of sexual harassment going through Title IX proceedings. The purpose was to effectively block the accused — mostly male students — from being able to defend themselves against bogus sexual harassment claims.
It went as far as to lower the burden of proof to find the accused guilty, as well as block the accused from reviewing the full scope of evidence against them, essentially barring them from being able to have an effective defense.
The Trump 45 rules, which are back in place, have a high burden of proof and allow the accused to develop a proper defense against accusations. In contrast to the regime put in place by the Obama administration, the Trump rules protect the accused from having their lives ruined by wanton, false accusations leveled against them, while still providing a robust process for genuine harassment claims.
