Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen (R) he said his state “will not comply” with recent changes to Title IX by the Biden administration, the Nebraska Examiner reported Friday.
“Protecting our children and women’s athletics is my duty,” Pillen said in a statement, according to The Nebraska Examiner. “The president’s new rules threaten women’s safety and their right to participate in women’s sports. Nebraska will not comply.”
The Biden administration unveiled a final set of changes to Title IX last month that add protections for transgender students to the federal civil rights law on sex-based discrimination. The changes will come into effect at the beginning of August.
“These final regulations build on the legacy of Title IX, clarifying that all students in our country can access schools that are safe, welcoming and that respect their rights,” said Education Secretary Miguel Cardona in a statement.
Pillen’s statement comes as other Republican-led states oppose the new Title IX rules, including Florida, Louisiana, Wyoming, South Carolina and Oklahoma.
Last Thursday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said his state “will not comply” with changes to federal civil rights law in a video on social platform X.
“Florida rejects [President Biden’s] attempt to rewrite Title IX,” DeSantis said. “We will not comply and we will counterattack.”
“We will not allow Joe Biden to try to insert men into women’s activities,” DeSantis continued. “We will not let Joe Biden undermine parental rights and we will not let Joe Biden abuse his constitutional authority to try to impose these policies on us here in Florida.”
In a statement to The Hill, the national press secretary for the LGBTQ advocacy group the Human Rights Campaign said that “already, politicians in Florida, Louisiana, Oklahoma and elsewhere are jumping to oppose crucial protections for students in American schools.”
“These MAGA politicians are choosing theatrical and hateful rhetoric over protecting and promoting the needs of their state’s students,” Brandon Wolf said in the statement. “Refusal to comply with Title IX could have harmful consequences for schools, including significant losses in funding in the hundreds of millions of dollars – dollars that should be going toward helping young people achieve academic excellence.
A spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) also said in a statement to The Hill that the DOE “drafted the final Title IX regulations following a rigorous process to give full effect to Title IX’s legal guarantee that no person suffers sexual discrimination at the federal level. funded education.”
“As a condition of receiving federal funds, all federally funded schools are required to comply with these final regulations, and we look forward to working with school communities across the country to ensure that the Title IX guarantee of non-discrimination in school is the experience of all the students.”
The Hill reached out to Pillen’s office.
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