Daily horoscope for April 27, 2024
Moon Alert: There are no restrictions to shopping or important decisions today. The Moon is in Sagittarius.
Happy Birthday for Saturday, April 27, 2024:
You are charming, refined, poised and determined. You are shy with strangers but friendly and animated with those you know well. This is a playful, fun-loving year for you. Feel free to let your hair down and loosen up a bit. Old friends may…
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Molly Sprayregen at LGBTQ Nation:
Four Southern states have joined together with four conservative organizations to sue the Biden administration over a recently issued rule banning anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination in education.
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The idea is that it’s impossible to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity without taking sex into account, a legal argument that the Supreme Court has already used in its 2020 Bostock v. Clayton Co. ruling with respect to job discrimination.
With the new rule, any school that receives federal funding will no longer be able to discriminate against LGBTQ+ students. This could affect states and school districts with policies to out LGBTQ+ students to their parents or ban trans students from using bathrooms that correspond with their gender. The new rules could also give students who face discrimination recourse in federal courts.
Alabama, South Carolina, Florida, and Georgia allege in the lawsuit that the Biden administration does not have the authority to make this rule and also that it goes beyond the original intentions of Title IX, according to CBS News.
The states are joined in the lawsuit by the Independent Women’s Network, Parents Defending Education, Speech First, and the Independent Women’s Law Center.
“The role of Cabinet agencies is to interpret laws as written by Congress – not to redefine the meaning of words to suit a fringe group of activists,” said Parents Defending Education president Nicole Neily in a statement, which went on to claim the rule proves “the Biden administration’s contempt for families, trumping state laws which reiterate parents’ right to access information and make decisions about issues related to their children’s gender identity in schools.”
“By lowering the standard of ‘harassment’ to little more than a one-off expression of humor, satire, or parody,” Neily continued, “the free speech rights of every young learner in America has become subordinate to how the most sensitive student might interpret a phrase. This Title IX rule is both unconstitutional and immoral, and we look forward to vindicating our members’ rights in court.”
“We will fight very strongly against this rule,” added Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody (R), “just to ensure this does what Congress intended it to do, and that is provide opportunities to everyone and especially protect the security and fairness for our biological females.”
Moody also claimed the new rule “is really a radical departure from what Title IX was originally meant to do.”
The lawsuit alleges that the rule “conflicts with many of the state plaintiffs’ laws that govern public institutions of higher education and primary and secondary education, including laws involving harassment, bathrooms, sports, parental rights, and more.”
It continues, “The rule thus impedes the state plaintiffs’ sovereign authority to enforce and administer their laws and creates pressure on the state plaintiffs to change their laws and practices.”
The new rules, however, do not discuss transgender student-athletes and which teams they can play on. The DOE is reportedly planning to issue a separate rule regarding what Title IX means for sports participation.
4 Southern states are suing the Biden Administration for the right to discriminate against LGBTQ+ children over the LGBTQ+-friendly Title IX changes.
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Georgia Fowler wearing a Matteau dress, photographed by Nicole Bentley for Marie Claire Australia, November 2022
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Josephine Skriver, Sara Sampaio & more at Shanina Shaik’s baby shower in Los Angeles - July 2022.
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UCI Road World Championships 2022 - Mixed Relay TTT
🥇 Switzerland - Stefan Küng, Marlen Reusser, Stefan Bissegger, Elise Chabbey, Mauro Schmid & Nicole Koller
🥈 Italy - Matteo Sobrero, Elisa Longo Borghini, Edoardo Affini, Elena Cecchini, Filippo Ganna & Vittoria Guazzini
🥉 Australia - Michael Matthews, Sarah Roy, Luke Plapp, Alexandra Manly, Luke Durbridge & Georgia Baker
📸 by Tim de Waele/Getty Images
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Georgia McQuillan for Nicole Miller, Fall 2021
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Tiffany Nicole Foster, 35: Last Seen Leaving Her Apartment In 2021
Tiffany Nicole Foster vanished in 2021 after leaving her home. She was set to go grocery shopping but never returned.
If you asked the loved ones of Tiffany Nicole Foster to describe her, they would say she was a responsible person. The mother of three was a devoted parent dedicated to her job and education. Tiffany, 35, was enrolled at Georgia Military College, majoring in criminal justice. While focusing on her studies, she also worked at Hello Fresh as a security guard. Her dedication was admired, and things…
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Georgia Fowler photographed by Nicole Bentley for Marie Claire Australia November 2022; shot at Nanuku Resort, Fiji
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