Oklahoma superintendent blasts 'senseless' Biden as he instructs schools to ... trends now
The boss of Oklahoma's schools has ordered them to 'completely ignore' Joe Biden's new rules promoting children's LGBTQ rights, as more states joined the backlash against the President's Title IX overhaul.
The rewrite forbids discrimination based on gender identity and leaves schools vulnerable to lawsuits if they ban trans students from girls' locker rooms, rest rooms or dorms.
Florida became the tenth state to sue the administration on Monday after Oklahoma Superintendent Ryan Walters slammed 'the most devastating attack on women's rights in our country's history'.
'In Oklahoma, we don't bend to the senseless will of Biden and his posse eradicating women's rights and putting women in danger,' he warned.
'This is why I've instructed every superintendent in my state to completely ignore Biden's new Title IX changes that allow males to roam in female locker rooms, dorms, and bathrooms — places where women should feel safe.'
President Joe Biden has made LGBTQ rights a cornerstone of his administration and has insisted the Title IX reforms will apply to all schools that receive federal money
But Oklahoma Superintendent Ryan Walters accused him of 'sacrificing women’s rights in a sad attempt to appeal to the most radical wing of your party'
The Department of Education says its new 1,600 page rulebook will 'guarantee that no person experiences sex discrimination in federally-funded education'.
But it has raised a storm of protest from states who warn that it puts LGBTQ rights above the safety of women and children, and clashes with a raft of recent state laws designed to roll back gender-based rights in the classroom.
Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Montana launched a lawsuit on Monday, damning the new regulations as a 'naked attempt to strong-arm our schools into molding our children in the current federal government's preferred image of how a child should think, act, and speak'.
Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina have launched an action against the 'onerous' regulations complaining they would increase costs and burdens on states.
And Texas has lodged a suit of its own against 'compliance with radical gender ideology'.
'I am instructing the Texas Education Agency to ignore your illegal dictate,' Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a statement.
'Your rewrite of Title IX not only exceeds your constitutional authority, it also tramples laws that I signed to protect the integrity of women's sports by
