Austin’s NBC affiliate reports:

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton blocked the Biden Administration’s Title IX rule protecting LGBTQ+ students from sex-based discrimination and harassment, Paxton’s office announced in a Tuesday release.

The rule would have protected all students and employees from all sex discrimination, including restoring and strengthening full protection from sexual violence and other sex-based harassment.

Paxton said in the release he won a “major” victory against the Biden Administration’s Department of Education’s attempt to rewrite Title IX to force Texas schools to adopt radical “transgender” policies in violation of state and federal law.

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Trump-appointed federal judges have so far blocked Title IX LGBTQ student protections in ten red states. 

In May 2024, Paxton separately sued the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to overturn LGBTQ workplace protections.