WASHINGTON—Senior Legal Fellow for the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation, and former Senior Counsel to the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education, Sarah Parshall Perry released the following statement celebrating the recent decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to suspend the Biden administration’s dangerous and illegal rewrite of Title IX:  

“Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 has served as a bulwark against sex discrimination in education for more than five decades. But with the glib stroke of a pen and some creative legal maneuvering, the White House eviscerated women’s educational equality with a new Title IX rule released in April of this year.

“Today, every justice on the U.S. Supreme Court determined the plaintiff states were entitled to preliminary relief, including as concerns the central provision of the rule that defines sex discrimination to include discrimination based on sexual orientation and 'gender identity.' 

“In the Court’s view, the federal government could not demonstrate a likelihood of ultimate success on its arguments, ensuring that for the time being—and just before the start of a new school year—26 states will continue to receive relief from the Title rule while litigation proceeds. For female students everywhere from preschool to graduate school—today was a day for celebration.”