Title IX, Thomas, and Westenbroek

Some noteworthy legal developments

June 12, 2024 

It’s a big week so far in cases about whether men should be allowed to pretend to be women!

Yesterday, a federal court in Texas issued a ruling about some recent Biden Administration Title IX policies. A lot of media outlets ran headlines like this one, from Just the News.

Or this one, from The Hill.

Or this one, from The Texas Tribune.

A lot of people who follow these matters got very excited.

Then, this morning it was announced that Lia (Will) Thomas has lost his bid to be permitted to compete in the women’s category in the Olympics. People rightly got excited about that too.

It got much less attention, but it was also announced this morning that the 10th Circuit has dismissed an appeal in the matter of Westenbroek v. Kappa Kappa Gamma, where some sorority sisters are suing their sorority over its policy admitting men who claim to have woman “gender identities.” The sorority won at the district level and the sisters appealed. Last month, I and some other women with Women’s Declaration International USA (WDI USA) attended a rally with several other women’s groups during oral arguments in the case.

And now the 10th Circuit has dismissed the appeal.

So what’s going on with all these cases?

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