The order came in response to a Biden administration challenge to Republican-led efforts to block federal rules prohibiting discrimination against transgender people in schools.
Listen to this article · 6:31 min Learn more
- Share full article
The decision provided a glimpse into how the current Supreme Court might address transgender rights.
The Supreme Court on Friday temporarily continued to block Education Department rules intended to protect transgender students from discrimination based on their gender identity in several Republican states that had mounted challenges.
The emergency order allowed rulings by lower courts in Louisiana and Kentucky to remain in effect in about 10 states as litigation moves forward, pausing new federal guidelines expanding protections for transgender students that had been enacted in nearly half the country on Aug. 1.
The order came in response to a challenge by the Biden administration, which asked the Supreme Court to intervene after a number of Republican-led states sought to overturn the new rules.
The decision was unsigned, as is typical in such emergency petitions, but all nine members of the court said that several parts of the new rules — including the protections for transgender students — should not go effect until the legal challenges are resolved.
“Importantly,” the unsigned order said, “all members of the court today accept that the plaintiffs were entitled to preliminary injunctive relief as to three provisions of the rule, including the central provision that newly defines sex discrimination to include discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.”
That was a victory for the Republican-led states, which had challenged the Biden administration rules.
We are having trouble retrieving the article content.
Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.
Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.
Thank you for your patience while we verify access.
Already a subscriber? Log in.
Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
SKIP ADVERTISEMENT
Source: nytimes.com
