State of Tennessee v. Cardona
Description: The Biden administration’s unlawful attempt to rewrite Title IX threatens teachers and students’ privacy, safety, fairness, and free speech.
WV male athlete finishes ahead of girls 700 times
The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Legal Counsel Rachel Rouleau regarding a motion to stay and preliminary injunction ADF attorneys filed Thursday with a federal district court in State of Tennessee v. Cardona on behalf of a high-school athlete from West Virginia and Christian Educators Association International, an association of teachers. ADF attorneys are asking the court to immediately halt the Biden administration’s efforts to rewrite Title IX to include “gender identity” in the definition of “sex” in the federal law before that change goes into effect on August 1. The requested stay would put the administration’s new changes on hold while the case proceeds:
“The Biden administration’s radical redefinition of sex will upend the equal opportunities that women and girls have enjoyed for 50 years under Title IX and will threaten their safety and privacy at every level. While the administration claims this change won’t affect sports, it has already made its position clear that men who identify as women should compete in women’s sports under Title IX. In fact, the administration has supported a male student’s efforts to compete against our client and other girls in women’s sports in West Virginia. After a federal court allowed this male to compete on the girls’ team, that male athlete has finished ahead of girls more than 700 times in cross country and track-and-field events and taken our client’s spot to compete at a conference championship. Our client has also lost her right to use the women’s locker room free from harassment and without a male present. This egregious example is just one of many ongoing difficulties girls are facing with this illegal rewrite of federal law and vast executive authority overreach.”
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky allowed both ADF clients to intervene in the case last week. Following the Biden administration’s announcement of the rule change on April 19, ADF attorneys have joined multiple states in different lawsuits challenging the redefinition of “sex” in Title IX.
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ABOUT Rachel Rouleau
Rachel Rouleau serves as legal counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom, where she is a member of the Center for Conscience Initiatives. Rouleau joined the Conscience Team in 2020, where she focuses on protecting the conscience rights of individuals being unjustly forced to compromise their beliefs under threat of heavy fines and punishment. Prior to that, she was a First Year Lawyer Fellow in ADF’s new fellowship program. Rouleau earned her J.D. from William and Mary Law School in 2019. She obtained her B.A. in political science from the University of Florida in 2015. She is a member of the Massachusetts bar.