ACLU argues A.G. Kobach’s lawsuit over recent Title IX changes is political play

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach solidified his stance on protecting LGBTQ+ students in schools on Monday. Kobach announced the AG’s office will sue the Biden Administration and the Department of Education over their new rules to include LGBTQ+ students in Title IX protections.

Title 9 is a landmark law for schools that get federal funding. It prohibits sex-based discrimination and now includes LGBTQ+ students.

Kobach has threatened to sue the administration over the change for at least a year now. In May of last year, Kobach said in an opinion piece in the Washington Times he would take the administration to court “in less time than it takes a man dressed as a woman to run a mile.”

“Most Kansans know the difference between a man and a woman,” said Kobach. “But Biden’s Title IX regulations effectively require universities to pretend there are no biological differences between men and women and effectively erases those differences.”

The Alliance Defending Freedom and two sister athletes joined Kobach on Monday, which he announced in Topeka and Facebook Live.

Meanwhile, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Kansas argues that the lawsuit advances Kobach’s “extreme agenda.”

“So that the law persecutes and punishes people rather than protects them,” said Micah Kubic, executive director of the ACLU of Kansas. “I think that’s what his lawsuit is about, saying there are some folks who are not a part of our community who should be excluded, who should be punished and be persecuted by the law.”

The lawsuit includes three other states: Alaska, Utah, and Wyoming.