OHIO — Implementation of new Title IX regulations are on hold after the U.S. Supreme Court issued an opinion that stopped them from going into effect in 26 states, including Ohio. 

What You Need To Know

  • It was the result of attorney generals in many states posing legal challenges to the new regulations
  • The Department of Justice has asked the court to intervene, since those regulations were supposed to go into effect on August 1 
  • The regulations promise equal opportunities for students at schools that receive federal funding, regardless of those students sex
  • They would also change sex discrimination and harassment definitions to include claims related to both general gender identity and sexual orientation

“Many of the state’s attorney generals, including AG Yost, have argued in their legal filings that expanding these definitions to include these extra transgender issues relating to gender identity and sexual orientation specifically, would actually harm students based on their sex rather than protect them,” said Spectrum News 1 Legal Analyst, Rory Riley-Topping.

“The U.S. Supreme Court states those objecting to the new rules deserve to have injunctive relief preliminarily, which means the regulations will be blocked. They will not go into effect while this continues to work through the process, which could be a very lengthy process,” said Riley-Topping. 

So for now, nothing changes for students in Ohio. She added that, had these regulations gone into effect, there would have been half of the states implementing the rules and half of the states not doing so who did not file legal objections, which would have muddied the waters.