(The Center Square) — A federal judge in Tennessee ruled in favor of Tennessee and 19 other states in their effort to block federal guidelines on transgender athletes and school locker rooms.
The lawsuit, brought by Tennessee, challenged guidance from the United States Department of Education and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that would allow athletes who were marked as males on their birth certificates to compete in girls and women’s sports. The federal guidance also would have prohibited student shower and locker room access from being determined by birth gender and provided guidance on required pronoun use.
U.S. District Judge Charles Atchley granted a temporary injunction against the federal guidance, enjoining Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota and West Virginia.
“The District Court rightly recognized the federal government put Tennessee and other states in an impossible situation: choose between the threat of legal consequences including the withholding of federal funding — or altering our state laws to comply,” said Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery. “Keep in mind these new, transformative rules were made without you — without your elected leaders in Congress having a say, which is what the law requires. We are thankful the Court put a stop to it, maintained the status quo as the lawsuit proceeds, and reminded the federal government it cannot direct its agencies to rewrite the law.”
Tennessee’s suit questioned whether the federal departments had the authority to enforce its guidance according to the Administrative Procedure Act, which determines what authority a government agency has and the procedures to develop and issue those regulations.
The federal departments contested that the guidance was not a final action and that the states could resolve the issues outside of court, meaning the court could not review the matter under APA. But Atchley disagreed.
“Because there are questions as to Defendants’ compliance with the APA, the public would benefit from a preliminary injunction,” Atchley wrote. “An injunction will ensure that the agencies are not exceeding their express authority delegated by Congress.”
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YES, now let’s do the same in all the other STATES! Take your “WOKE” BS and stick it !
Amendment 10
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
“Keep in mind these new, transformative rules were made without you — without your elected leaders in Congress having a say, which is what the law requires. We are thankful the Court put a stop to it, maintained the status quo as the lawsuit proceeds, and reminded the federal government it cannot direct its agencies to rewrite the law.”
The treachery of the treasonous, socialist Democrat Party know no bounds.
Sorry, Scruffy, a twitch of the hand gave you a one-star rating. Didn’t mean to do it.
Self-declared transgenders should not be allowed to compete in sports with either males or females. They are a threat to the sanity of straight thinking people, and their very presence in the locker rooms are a downright invasion of straight people’s rights to privacy and the display of the privates they were born with. They should allowed to compete only in their self-declared organized collectives of mutations in indoctrinations, where each insane asylum or mental ward they belong to, and are committed to, can have its own mascots and team players. I’m sure team names like, The Beavers, The Cut-Ups, the Manglers, The Bearded Ladies and the Missing Parts gang, would prove most popular. Constitutionally Separate but unequal is a phrase that comes to mind. Definitely keep them away from your kids.
GOOD, another judge with common sense.
This is still another case of unelected bureaucrats creating rules and regulations to favor a vocal minority of the poplation without any specific direction from the Congess with approprite legislation. We saw this with the EPA and we will see more of it now that Court is sympathetic to the states and the general populace and not the special interests.
ITS a real pity that there’s no law, that ANY POLITICIAN WHO KNOWINGLY creates a law, that is unconstitutional, DOES NOT GET CHARGED with a criminal offense…
Meanwhile, a major school has just announced a “transgender male” is the “Woman of the Year.”
The rate the libtards are going, there won’t be any REAL WOMEN left in ‘winning positions’…
Yes, Yes, and Yes. Men like Lia Thomas (not mentioned in the article but we all know) is a LOSER. And biology and DNA prevails here – XX for females and XY for males. That will NEVER change.
Yes, see my comment above.