Oklahoma superintendent blasts 'senseless' Biden as he instructs schools to IGNORE new Title IX laws that are 'putting women in danger'

The boss of Oklahoma's schools has ordered them to 'completely ignore' Joe Biden's new rules promoting children's LGBTQ rights, as more states joined the backlash against the President's Title IX overhaul.

The rewrite forbids discrimination based on gender identity and leaves schools vulnerable to lawsuits if they ban trans students from girls' locker rooms, rest rooms or dorms.

Florida became the tenth state to sue the administration on Monday after Oklahoma Superintendent Ryan Walters slammed 'the most devastating attack on women's rights in our country's history'.

'In Oklahoma, we don't bend to the senseless will of Biden and his posse eradicating women's rights and putting women in danger,' he warned.

'This is why I've instructed every superintendent in my state to completely ignore Biden's new Title IX changes that allow males to roam in female locker rooms, dorms, and bathrooms — places where women should feel safe.'

President Joe Biden has made LGBTQ rights a cornerstone of his administration and has insisted the Title IX reforms will apply to all schools that receive federal money

But Oklahoma Superintendent Ryan Walters accused him of 'sacrificing women’s rights in a sad attempt to appeal to the most radical wing of your party'

The Department of Education says its new 1,600 page rulebook will 'guarantee that no person experiences sex discrimination in federally-funded education'.

But it has raised a storm of protest from states who warn that it puts LGBTQ rights above the safety of women and children, and clashes with a raft of recent state laws designed to roll back gender-based rights in the classroom.

Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Montana launched a lawsuit on Monday, damning the new regulations as a 'naked attempt to strong-arm our schools into molding our children in the current federal government's preferred image of how a child should think, act, and speak'.

Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina have launched an action against the 'onerous' regulations complaining they would increase costs and burdens on states.

And Texas has lodged a suit of its own against 'compliance with radical gender ideology'.

'I am instructing the Texas Education Agency to ignore your illegal dictate,' Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a statement.

'Your rewrite of Title IX not only exceeds your constitutional authority, it also tramples laws that I signed to protect the integrity of women's sports by prohibiting men from competing against female athletes.'

The Title IX statute was originally introduced to ban discrimination on the basis of sex as part of the landmark Education Amendments of 1972.

Walters has said the state will pay the bills of any school taken to court for ignoring the new Title IX rules on transgender students 

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt banned transgender girls and women from competing on female sports teams in his state back in 2022, and more than a dozen states have followed suit 

The Obama administration was the first to extend its protections to transgender students although the guidance on gender identity was withdrawn under Donald Trump.

The new reforms follow two executive orders from President Biden in 2021 but they remain unclear about the right of trans students to participate in girls' sports.

'The bottom line is this,' tweeted Florida governor Ron DeSantis on Tuesday.

'Injecting men into women's bathrooms and lockers rooms is not good for women. Injecting boys into girls' sports is not good for girls. This is bad policy, but it's also not constitutional.

'They're twisting the law to try to impose an ideological agenda on the rest of the country.

'And I've said very clearly in Florida: we do not consent to that, we will not comply with it, and we will fight back against it. So, you can take that to the bank.'

The latest Title IX text describes 'misgendering' trans students as 'harassment', and Walters warned that it leaves a school at risk if a it fails to use a pupil's preferred pronouns.

'It's time for every state leader to stand up and say enough of this preposterous charade that erases women and puts their safety in jeopardy,' he said.

'Although these rule changes are set to go into effect August 1, I hope and expect there to be a preliminary injunction and possibly a permanent injunction that would delay the implementation of these rules while the rule is decided in federal court, which could be an indefinite amount of time.'

But the Department of Education told the Washington Examiner that no school will be allowed to ignore the rules if it receives federal money.

'The Department crafted the final Title IX regulations following a rigorous process to give complete effect to the Title IX statutory guarantee that no person experiences sex discrimination in federally-funded education,' a spokesperson said.

'As a condition of receiving federal funds, all federally-funded schools are obligated to comply with these final regulations and we look forward to working with school communities all across the country to ensure the Title IX guarantee of nondiscrimination in school is every student's experience.'