Title IX

According to a report by the school’s student newspaper, Florida men's basketball coach Todd Golden is facing allegations of sexual harassment, sexual exploitation, stalking and cyberstalking multiple women — including students — over the past 12 months.

The U.S. Department of Education issued the rule in April after numerous moves by Florida and other Republican-led states in recent years to pass laws and regulations about transgender people.

The new federal rules would stop schools from discriminating against students based on gender identity and sexuality.

The court fight focuses on the Biden administration's extension of Title IX rules to apply to discrimination based on gender identity. The injunction was granted a day before the change was to take effect.

The injunction by a federal judge applies in Alaska, Kansas, Utah and Wyoming, as well as a Stillwater, Oklahoma, middle school that has a student suing and to members of three groups fighting the rule.

Florida, three other states and four organizations challenged the Biden administration's addition of sexual orientation and gender identity to the landmark law that bars discrimination in education based on sex.

The State Board of Education approved the changes as Florida challenges a Biden administration rule that would help carry out Title IX.

The board's resolution defines sex as male or female, acknowledges the importance of single-sex bathrooms and directs the superintendent to consider no policy changes while legal challenges play out.

Gov. Ron DeSantis says Florida won’t comply with new Title IX rules.

The new rules spell out that the 1972 law to protect women's rights in schools also applies to sexual orientation and gender identity. Gov. Ron DeSantis says, "We will not comply."

Under the new rules, students must be allowed to use pronouns and bathrooms that align with their gender identity among other changes.

The proposed changes to Title IX would still give schools some flexibility to ban transgender athletes depending on age and sport.